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 Lakeside Terrace:
28.059500, -82.489100
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 Lakeside Terrace
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 Hillsborough County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found three communities that are also named Lakeside Terrace.
Within Florida, the name Lakeside Terrace is unique.
Beyond Florida, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arkansas
Baxter County
This Lakeside Terrace is located in Baxter County and lies 811 miles [1,305.2 km]<1> to the northwest of the Lakeside Terrace that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baxter County community of Lakeside Terrace.
California
Calaveras County
This Lakeside Terrace is located in Calaveras County and lies 2,279 miles [3,667.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Lakeside Terrace that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Calaveras County community of Lakeside Terrace.
Ohio
Portage County
This Lakeside Terrace is located in Portage County and lies 911 miles [1,466.1 km]<1> to the north of the Lakeside Terrace that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Portage County community of Lakeside Terrace.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Lakeside Terrace ...
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.
Castle Gardens (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
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 Lakeside Terrace to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Lakeside Terrace and extending to:
Tallahassee, which is the State Capital of Florida, lies 196 miles [315.4 km]<1> to the north northwest (NNW). If you could drive a straight line from Lakeside Terrace to Tallahassee, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take a little over three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 12 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 8 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 811 miles [1,305.2 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 32 days and walking would take 46 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,615 miles [10,645.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,285 miles [11,724.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,183 miles [8,341.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Lakeside Terrace) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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.
<3>
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 Lakeside Terrace 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 Lakeside Terrace. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 28.0595, Longitude: -82.4891 In this case, the coordinates for Lakeside Terrace have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.853 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.269 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.878 degrees.