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 Bay Village:
42.350653, -71.069773
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.
We found two communities that share the name Bay Village.
Within Massachusetts, the name Bay Village is unique.
Beyond Massachusetts, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arkansas
Cross County
This Bay Village is located in Cross County and lies 1,152 miles [1,854 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Bay Village that is located in Suffolk County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cross County community of Bay Village.
Ohio
Cuyahoga County
This Bay Village is located in Cuyahoga County and lies 560 miles [901.2 km]<1> to the west of the Bay Village that is located in Suffolk County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cuyahoga County community of Bay Village.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Bay Village ...
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 Bay Village to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Bay Village and extending to:
Boston, which is the State Capital of Massachusetts, lies just to the northeast (NE).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 393 miles [632.5 km]<1> to the southwest (SW). If you could drive a straight line from Bay Village to White House, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 23 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 16 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,504 miles [8,857.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,211 miles [9,995.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,088 miles [6,579 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Bay Village) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bay Village. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.3507, Longitude: -71.0698 In this case, the coordinates for Bay Village have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
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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.
<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 Bay Village to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 303.983 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.578 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.58 degrees.