D'Iberville, MS Night Sky Brightness
What the night sky looks like over D'Iberville, MS
Satellite radiance puts D'Iberville in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 91.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than D'Iberville.
The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class - the Bortle scale guide covers why.
How far D'Iberville is from a meaningfully darker sky
3 miles from D'Iberville, straight-line, sits Biloxi, MS, the nearest city here with a darker sky than D'Iberville's own urban band.
Biloxi, MS is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
D'Iberville against the rest of the dataset
D'Iberville, MS has a population of about 13,399, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, D'Iberville ranks 2,906 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.