Tomball, TX Night Sky Brightness
What the night sky looks like over Tomball, TX
Tomball reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Tomball's sky is brighter than 80.9% of the 3,206 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 Bortle scale guide covers why.
The nearest darker sky to Tomball
25 miles from Tomball, straight-line, sits Katy, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Tomball's own suburban band.
Katy, TX is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Tomball against the rest of the dataset
Tomball, TX has a population of about 15,152, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Tomball ranks 2,580 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.