DarkSkyCheck

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.

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.