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 Cooks Corner:
42.277870, -72.470364
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 Cooks Corner
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 Hampshire County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found five communities that are also named Cooks Corner.
Within Massachusetts, the name Cooks Corner is unique.
Beyond Massachusetts, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Maine
Cumberland County
This Cooks Corner is located in Cumberland County and lies 171 miles [275.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the Cooks Corner that is located in Hampshire County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Cooks Corner.
Waldo County
This Cooks Corner is located in Waldo County and lies 230 miles [370.1 km] to the northeast of the Cooks Corner that is located in Hampshire County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Waldo County community of Cooks Corner.
Rhode Island
Kent County
This Cooks Corner is located in Kent County and lies 67 miles [107.8 km]<1> to the southeast of the Cooks Corner that is located in Hampshire County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kent County community of Cooks Corner.
Tennessee
Rutherford County
This Cooks Corner is located in Rutherford County and lies 867 miles [1,395.3 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Cooks Corner that is located in Hampshire County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutherford County community of Cooks Corner.
Virginia
Middlesex County
This Cooks Corner is located in Middlesex County and lies 388 miles [624.4 km]<1> to the southwest of the Cooks Corner that is located in Hampshire County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Middlesex County community of Cooks Corner.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Cooks Corner ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Cooks Corner to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Cooks Corner and extending to:
Boston, which is the State Capital of Massachusetts, lies 72 miles [115.9 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Cooks Corner to Boston, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 4 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 334 miles [537.5 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 13 days and walking would take 19 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,566 miles [8,957.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,276 miles [10,100.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,152 miles [6,682 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>'
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Cooks Corner) 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 Cooks Corner 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 Cooks Corner. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.2779, Longitude: -72.4704 In this case, the coordinates for Cooks Corner have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.835 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 300.524 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.248 degrees.