Carrollton, GA Night Sky Brightness
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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
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's position, 802 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.