Fate, TX's night sky, measured from orbit

Fate's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 36.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Fate.

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 Fate

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Red Oak, TX, roughly 38 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

Red Oak, 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 Fate compares nationally

Fate, TX counts roughly 27,467 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Fate places 1,155 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.