What the night sky looks like over Hewitt, TX

Satellite radiance puts Hewitt in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 18.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Hewitt.

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 Hewitt is from a meaningfully darker sky

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

Robinson, TX is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

Hewitt against the rest of the dataset

Hewitt, TX counts roughly 16,749 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Hewitt ranks 578 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.