Killeen, TX Night Sky Brightness
Killeen, TX's night sky, measured from orbit
Killeen's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Killeen's sky is brighter than 65.3% 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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Killeen
5 miles from Killeen, straight-line, sits Harker Heights, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Killeen's own suburban band.
Harker Heights, 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 Killeen compares nationally
Killeen, TX has a population of about 160,616, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Killeen's position, 2,081 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.