What the night sky looks like over Roanoke, TX

Satellite radiance puts Roanoke in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 52.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Roanoke.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Roanoke

4 miles from Roanoke, straight-line, sits Northlake, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Roanoke's own suburban band.

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

Roanoke against the rest of the dataset

Roanoke, TX has a population of about 10,895, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Roanoke ranks 1,681 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.