Trussville, AL's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Trussville 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. Trussville's sky is brighter than 34.1% 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 Trussville

Clay, AL, about 4 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Trussville. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Trussville compares nationally

About 27,079 people live in Trussville, AL, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Trussville places 1,089 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.