Burleson, TX's night sky, measured from orbit

Burleson reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 21.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Burleson.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

The nearest darker sky to Burleson

31 miles from Burleson, straight-line, sits Red Oak, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Burleson's own suburban edge band.

Red Oak, TX is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

How Burleson compares nationally

Burleson, TX has a population of about 56,253, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Burleson places 695 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.