What the night sky looks like over Lower Burrell, PA

Satellite radiance puts Lower Burrell 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 23.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Lower Burrell.

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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Lower Burrell

Plum, PA, about 6 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Lower Burrell. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Lower Burrell against the rest of the dataset

Lower Burrell, PA has a population of about 11,542, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Lower Burrell ranks 739 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.