Hutto, TX's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Hutto 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 40.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Hutto.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

Where to go for a darker sky near Hutto

27 miles from Hutto, straight-line, sits Lago Vista, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Hutto's own suburban edge band.

Lago Vista, 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 Hutto compares nationally

About 42,661 people live in Hutto, TX, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Hutto places 1,299 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.