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 Southern Heights:
38.183126, -85.773851
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 Southern Heights
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 Jefferson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found three communities that are also named Southern Heights.
Within Kentucky, the name Southern Heights is unique.
Beyond Kentucky, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Louisiana
East Baton Rouge Parish
This Southern Heights is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and lies 611 miles [983.3 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Southern Heights that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the East Baton Rouge Parish community of Southern Heights.
Tennessee
Hamblen County
This Southern Heights is located in Hamblen County and lies 193 miles [310.6 km]<1> to the southeast of the Southern Heights that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamblen County community of Southern Heights.
Washington
King County
This Southern Heights is located in King County and lies 1,937 miles [3,117.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Southern Heights that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the King County community of Southern Heights.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Southern Heights ...
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.
Cherokee Garden (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
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 Southern Heights to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Southern Heights and extending to:
Frankfort, which is the State Capital of Kentucky, lies 48 miles [77.2 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could walk a straight line from Southern Heights to Frankfort, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take about three full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of two days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 474 miles [762.8 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of a day, a buggy would take 19 days and walking would take 27 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,288 miles [10,119.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,011 miles [11,283.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,887 miles [7,864.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Southern Heights) 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.
<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 Southern Heights 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 Southern Heights. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.1831, Longitude: -85.7739 In this case, the coordinates for Southern Heights have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.22 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.416 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.731 degrees.