Sebastian, FL's night sky, measured from orbit

Sebastian reads as rural on this dataset's scale. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Sebastian's sky is brighter than 8.7% 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Sebastian

39 miles from Sebastian, straight-line, sits Cocoa Beach, FL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Sebastian's own rural band.

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

How Sebastian compares nationally

Sebastian, FL counts roughly 27,087 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Sebastian places 279 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.