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 Vernon Center:
41.837043, -72.472029
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 Vernon Center
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 Tolland County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found three communities that are also named Vernon Center.
Within Connecticut, the name Vernon Center is unique.
Beyond Connecticut, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Michigan
Isabella County
This Vernon Center is located in Isabella County and lies 636 miles [1,023.5 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Vernon Center that is located in Tolland County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Isabella County community of Vernon Center.
Minnesota
Blue Earth County
This Vernon Center is located in Blue Earth County and lies 1,103 miles [1,775.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Vernon Center that is located in Tolland County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Blue Earth County community of Vernon Center.
New York
Oneida County
This Vernon Center is located in Oneida County and lies 175 miles [281.6 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Vernon Center that is located in Tolland County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oneida County community of Vernon Center.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Vernon Center ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Vernon Center to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Vernon Center and extending to:
Hartford, which is the State Capital of Connecticut, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> to the west southwest (WSW). If you could walk a straight line from Vernon Center to Hartford, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 314 miles [505.3 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 13 days and walking would take 18 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,584 miles [8,986.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,291 miles [10,124.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,167 miles [6,706.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
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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 from Point A (ie- Vernon Center) 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.
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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 Vernon Center 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 Vernon Center. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.8370, Longitude: -72.4720 In this case, the coordinates for Vernon Center have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.895 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 300.519 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.464 degrees.