Celina, TX's night sky, measured from orbit

Celina 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. That's brighter than 19.7% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

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 Celina

22 miles from Celina, straight-line, sits Sanger, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Celina's own suburban edge band.

Sanger, 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 Celina compares nationally

Celina, TX has a population of about 51,661, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Celina places 628 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.