Jasper, AL's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Jasper 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. Jasper's sky is brighter than 43.6% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

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 Jasper

29 miles from Jasper, straight-line, sits Gardendale, AL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Jasper's own suburban edge band.

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

How Jasper compares nationally

Jasper, AL counts roughly 14,561 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Jasper places 1,391 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.