What the night sky looks like over Taylor, TX

Taylor reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. That's brighter than 25.7% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

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 Taylor

34 miles from Taylor, straight-line, sits Lago Vista, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Taylor's own suburban edge band.

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

Taylor against the rest of the dataset

Taylor, TX has a population of about 17,872, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Taylor ranks 820 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.