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 North Cornwall:
41.870928, -73.314562
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 North Cornwall
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 Litchfield County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found one communities that are also named North Cornwall.
Within Connecticut, the name North Cornwall is unique.
Beyond Connecticut, there is another community also named North Cornwall in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Pennsylvania
Lebanon County
This North Cornwall is located in Lebanon County and lies 195 miles [313.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the North Cornwall that is located in Litchfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lebanon County community of North Cornwall.
Curious and Interesting Names Near North Cornwall ...
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.
Corner of the Pines (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Corner of the Pines is located in Litchfield County
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as North Cornwall to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in North Cornwall and extending to:
Hartford, which is the State Capital of Connecticut, lies 33 miles [53.1 km]<1> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could walk a straight line from North Cornwall to Hartford, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just over a day.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 283 miles [455.4 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 11 days and walking would take 16 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,618 miles [9,041.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,327 miles [10,182.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,203 miles [6,764.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- North Cornwall) 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.
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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 North Cornwall 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 North Cornwall. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.8709, Longitude: -73.3146 In this case, the coordinates for North Cornwall have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.396 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.089 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.825 degrees.