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 Bishops Corner:
41.581209, -72.868990
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 Bishops Corner
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 Hartford County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found two communities that are also named Bishops Corner.
Within Connecticut, the name Bishops Corner is unique.
Beyond Connecticut, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Delaware
Kent County
This Bishops Corner is located in Kent County and lies 216 miles [347.6 km]<1> to the southwest of the Bishops Corner that is located in Hartford County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kent County community of Bishops Corner.
Virginia
Lunenburg County
This Bishops Corner is located in Lunenburg County and lies 425 miles [684 km]<1> to the southwest of the Bishops Corner that is located in Hartford County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lunenburg County community of Bishops Corner.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Bishops Corner ...
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, 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 Bishops Corner to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Bishops Corner and extending to:
Hartford, which is the State Capital of Connecticut, lies 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could walk a straight line from Bishops Corner to Hartford, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take five to six hours.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 287 miles [461.9 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 12 days and walking would take 17 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,611 miles [9,030 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,318 miles [10,167.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,194 miles [6,749.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<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- Bishops Corner) 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.
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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.
<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 Bishops Corner 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 Bishops Corner. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.5812, Longitude: -72.8690 In this case, the coordinates for Bishops Corner have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.165 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 300.781 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.764 degrees.