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 Baldwin Hills:
34.018371, -118.366098
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 Baldwin Hills
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 Los Angeles County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found three communities that are also named Baldwin Hills.
Within California, the name Baldwin Hills is unique.
Beyond California, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Paulding County
This Baldwin Hills is located in Paulding County and lies 1,910 miles [3,073.8 km]<1> to the east of the Baldwin Hills that is located in Los Angeles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Paulding County community of Baldwin Hills.
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This Baldwin Hills is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 2,320 miles [3,733.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Baldwin Hills that is located in Los Angeles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Baldwin Hills.
Harford County
This Baldwin Hills is located in Harford County and lies 2,327 miles [3,744.9 km] to the east northeast of the Baldwin Hills that is located in Los Angeles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harford County community of Baldwin Hills.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Baldwin Hills ...
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.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Baldwin Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Baldwin Hills and extending to:
Sacramento, which is the State Capital of California, lies 359 miles [577.8 km]<1> to the north northwest (NNW). If you could drive a straight line from Baldwin Hills to Sacramento, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 21 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 14 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,300 miles [3,701.5 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 90 days and walking would take 131 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,572 miles [12,186 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 8,341 miles [13,423.5 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 6,331 miles [10,188.8 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Baldwin Hills) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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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.
<3>
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 Baldwin Hills 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 Baldwin Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.0184, Longitude: -118.3661
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 336.336 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 336.259 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 325.702 degrees.