Pearl, MS's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Pearl in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 47.9% of the 3,206 US 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.

The nearest darker sky to Pearl

8 miles from Pearl, straight-line, sits Jackson, MS, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Pearl's own suburban band.

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

How Pearl compares nationally

Pearl, MS has a population of about 28,458, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Pearl places 1,529 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.