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 Oakland Gardens:
41.732600, -72.783708
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 Oakland Gardens
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 Oakland Gardens.
Within Connecticut, the name Oakland Gardens is unique.
Beyond Connecticut, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
New York
Queens County
This Oakland Gardens is located in Queens County and lies 84 miles [135.2 km]<1> to the southwest of the Oakland Gardens that is located in Hartford County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Queens County community of Oakland Gardens.
Tennessee
Washington County
This Oakland Gardens is located in Washington County and lies 633 miles [1,018.7 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Oakland Gardens that is located in Hartford County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Oakland Gardens.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Oakland Gardens ...
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.
Barber Corner ‑ Historic (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
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 Oakland Gardens to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Oakland Gardens and extending to:
Hartford, which is the State Capital of Connecticut, lies just to the east northeast (ENE).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 297 miles [478 km]<1> to the southwest (SW). If you could drive a straight line from Oakland Gardens to White House, with an average speed<3>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 17 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 12 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,601 miles [9,013.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,309 miles [10,153.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,185 miles [6,735.1 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Oakland Gardens) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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 Oakland Gardens 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 Oakland Gardens. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.7326, Longitude: -72.7837 In this case, the coordinates for Oakland Gardens have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.095 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 300.727 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.653 degrees.