What the night sky looks like over Starkville, MS

Satellite radiance puts Starkville 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. Only 26% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Starkville.

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.

How far Starkville is from a meaningfully darker sky

Northport, AL, about 72 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Starkville. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Starkville against the rest of the dataset

Starkville, MS counts roughly 25,844 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Starkville ranks 829 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.