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 Waltersburg:
37.378941, -88.564214
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 Waltersburg
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 Pope County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found one communities that are also named Waltersburg.
Within Illinois, the name Waltersburg is unique.
Beyond Illinois, there is another community also named Waltersburg in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Pennsylvania
Fayette County
This Waltersburg is located in Fayette County and lies 506 miles [814.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Waltersburg that is located in Pope County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of Waltersburg.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Waltersburg ...
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 & 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 Waltersburg to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Waltersburg and extending to:
Golconda, which is the Seat of Pope County, lies just to the East Southeast.
Springfield, which is the State Capital of Illinois, lies 176 miles [283.2 km]<1> to the north northwest (NNW). If you could drive a straight line from Waltersburg to Springfield, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 10 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 7 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 634 miles [1,020.3 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 25 days and walking would take 36 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,436 miles [10,357.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,163 miles [11,527.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,040 miles [8,111.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Waltersburg) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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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.
<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 Waltersburg 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 Waltersburg. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.3789, Longitude: -88.5642 In this case, the coordinates for Waltersburg have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 314.966 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.308 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.186 degrees.