Mooresville, NC: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Mooresville 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. Mooresville's sky is brighter than 36.2% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

The nearest darker sky to Mooresville

7 miles from Mooresville, straight-line, sits Davidson, NC, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Mooresville's own suburban edge band.

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

How Mooresville compares nationally

About 52,884 people live in Mooresville, NC, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Mooresville places 1,156 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.