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 Capitol View:
30.463246, -91.180385
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 Capitol View
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 four communities that are also named Capitol View.
Within Louisiana, the name Capitol View is unique.
Beyond Louisiana, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Fulton County
This Capitol View is located in Fulton County and lies 455 miles [732.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Capitol View that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fulton County community of Capitol View.
South Carolina
Richland County
This Capitol View is located in Richland County and lies 645 miles [1,038 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Capitol View that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Richland County community of Capitol View.
Utah
Salt Lake County
This Capitol View is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,358 miles [2,185.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the Capitol View that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Capitol View.
Virginia
Henrico County
This Capitol View is located in Henrico County and lies 924 miles [1,487 km]<1> to the northeast of the Capitol View that is located in East Baton Rouge Parish.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henrico County community of Capitol View.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Capitol View ...
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.
Airline Terrace (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Airline Terrace is located in East Baton Rouge Parish
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Capitol View to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Capitol View and extending to:
Baton Rouge, which is the State Capital of Louisiana, lies just to the east southeast (ESE).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 990 miles [1,593.3 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Capitol View to White House, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take most of two days to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 57 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 39 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,882 miles [11,075.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,592 miles [12,218.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,468 miles [8,799.9 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Capitol View) 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 Capitol View 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 Capitol View. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.4632, Longitude: -91.1804 In this case, the coordinates for Capitol View have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.056 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.636 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.578 degrees.