Horn Lake, MS Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Horn Lake, MS?
Satellite radiance puts Horn Lake 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. Horn Lake's sky is brighter than 25.2% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.
Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.
Where to go for a darker sky near Horn Lake
Atoka, TN, about 36 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Horn Lake. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Atoka, TN is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Horn Lake against the rest of the dataset
Horn Lake, MS has a population of about 26,574, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Horn Lake comes in at 804, darkest to brightest.