Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above
website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above,
we pass this GPS location for Poughkeepsie:
36.076774, -91.479245
Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Poughkeepsie
Bird Watching ...
We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Sharp County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found one communities that are also named Poughkeepsie.
Within Arkansas, the name Poughkeepsie is unique.
Beyond Arkansas, there is another community also named Poughkeepsie in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
New York
Dutchess County
This Poughkeepsie is located in Dutchess County and lies 1,018 miles [1,638.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Poughkeepsie that is located in Sharp County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dutchess County community of Poughkeepsie.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Poughkeepsie ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
Amateur ‑ Historic (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Poughkeepsie to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Poughkeepsie and extending to:
Ash Flat, which is the Seat of Sharp County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> to the northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Poughkeepsie to Ash Flat, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
Little Rock, which is the State Capital of Arkansas, lies 102 miles [164.2 km] to the south southwest (SSW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take three full days and walking would take 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 813 miles [1,308.4 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 32 days and walking would take 47 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,613 miles [10,642.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,343 miles [11,817.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,221 miles [8,402.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Poughkeepsie) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>
While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<4>
The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Poughkeepsie to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Poughkeepsie. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.0768, Longitude: -91.4792
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.77 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 313.215 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.775 degrees.