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 Brandon Place:
30.522966, -91.025104
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 Brandon Place
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 parish-by-parish basis. We have selected East Baton Rouge Parish as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found one communities that are also named Brandon Place.
Within Louisiana, the name Brandon Place is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, there is another community also named Brandon Place in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Virginia
Norfolk City
This Brandon Place is located in Norfolk City and lies 955 miles [1,536.9 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Brandon Place that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Norfolk City community of Brandon Place.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Brandon Place ...
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 Brandon Place to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Brandon Place and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the Seat of East Baton Rouge Parish, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the west southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Brandon Place to Baton Rouge, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies 9 miles [14.5 km] to the west southwest (WSW). The buggy would take a little over three hours and walking would take four to five hours.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 980 miles [1,577.2 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of two days, a buggy would take 39 days and walking would take 56 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,872 miles [11,059.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,582 miles [12,202 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,459 miles [8,785.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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 from Point A (ie- Brandon Place) 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 Brandon Place 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 Brandon Place. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.5230, Longitude: -91.0251 In this case, the coordinates for Brandon Place have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.968 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.541 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.508 degrees.