Carrollton, GA's night sky, measured from orbit

Carrollton 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 25.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Carrollton.

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 Carrollton

24 miles from Carrollton, straight-line, sits Douglasville, GA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Carrollton's own suburban edge band.

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

How Carrollton compares nationally

Carrollton, GA has a population of about 28,306, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Carrollton places 802 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.