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 East Berlin:
41.618735, -72.714156
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 East Berlin
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 six communities that are also named East Berlin.
Within Connecticut, the name East Berlin is unique.
Beyond Connecticut, we know of six communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these six communities, five are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Maryland
Worcester County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of East Berlin [Worcester County].
Massachusetts
Worcester County
This East Berlin is located in Worcester County and lies 78 miles [125.5 km]<2> to the northeast of the East Berlin that is located in Hartford County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Worcester County community of East Berlin.
New Jersey
Camden County
This East Berlin is located in Camden County and lies 170 miles [273.6 km]<2> to the southwest of the East Berlin that is located in Hartford County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Camden County community of East Berlin.
Nova Scotia
This East Berlin lies 445 miles [716.2 km]<2> to the east northeast of the East Berlin that is located in Hartford County.
Pennsylvania
Adams County
This East Berlin is located in Adams County and lies 251 miles [403.9 km]<2> to the west southwest of the East Berlin that is located in Hartford County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Adams County community of East Berlin.
Wayne County
This East Berlin is located in Wayne County and lies 122 miles [196.3 km] to the west of the East Berlin that is located in Hartford County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of East Berlin.
Curious and Interesting Names Near East Berlin ...
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 East Berlin to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in East Berlin and extending to:
Hartford, which is the State Capital of Connecticut, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<2> to the north (N). If you could walk a straight line from East Berlin to Hartford, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 295 miles [474.8 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<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,603 miles [9,017.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,310 miles [10,155 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,186 miles [6,736.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.
Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.
Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.
Also keep in mind that East Berlin could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<2>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- East Berlin) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>
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.
<5>
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 East Berlin 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 East Berlin. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.6187, Longitude: -72.7142
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.068 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 300.678 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.677 degrees.