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 Oceanview:
37.709376, -122.438583
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 Oceanview
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 San Francisco County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found three communities that are also named Oceanview.
Within California, the name Oceanview is unique.
Beyond California, we know of three communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these three communities, .
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Nova Scotia
This Oceanview lies 3,172 miles [5,104.8 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Oceanview that is located in San Francisco County.
South Carolina
Charleston County
This Oceanview is located in Charleston County and lies 2,401 miles [3,864 km]<1> to the east of the Oceanview that is located in San Francisco County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Charleston County community of Oceanview.
Washington
Pacific County
This Oceanview is located in Pacific County and lies 600 miles [965.6 km]<1> to the north of the Oceanview that is located in San Francisco County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pacific County community of Oceanview.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Oceanview ...
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 Oceanview to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Oceanview and extending to:
Sacramento, which is the State Capital of California, lies 79 miles [127.1 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Oceanview to Sacramento, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,435 miles [3,918.8 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 96 days and walking would take 139 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,419 miles [11,939.7 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 8,186 miles [13,174.1 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 6,242 miles [10,045.5 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Oceanview) 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 Oceanview 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 Oceanview. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.7094, Longitude: -122.4386 In this case, the coordinates for Oceanview have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 340.213 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 341.164 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 328.177 degrees.