Smyrna, DE Night Sky Brightness
What the night sky looks like over Smyrna, DE
Smyrna reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 65.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Smyrna.
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 Bortle scale guide covers why.
The nearest darker sky to Smyrna
30 miles from Smyrna, straight-line, sits Millville, NJ, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Smyrna's own suburban band.
Millville, NJ is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Smyrna against the rest of the dataset
Smyrna, DE has a population of about 13,326, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Smyrna ranks 2,094 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.