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 Ten Hills:
42.396763, -71.086996
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 Ten Hills
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 Middlesex County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found two communities that are also named Ten Hills.
Within Massachusetts, the name Ten Hills is unique.
Beyond Massachusetts, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Maryland
Baltimore City
This Ten Hills is located in Baltimore City and lies 363 miles [584.2 km]<1> to the southwest of the Ten Hills that is located in Middlesex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore City community of Ten Hills.
Ohio
Allen County
Although located in Allen County, we don't know the location within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Allen County community of Ten Hills.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Ten Hills ...
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 Ten Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Ten Hills and extending to:
Boston, which is the State Capital of Massachusetts, lies just to the south southeast (SSE).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 394 miles [634.1 km]<1> to the southwest (SW). If you could drive a straight line from Ten Hills to White House, with an average speed<2>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<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,503 miles [8,856.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<4>
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).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,087 miles [6,577.4 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Ten Hills) 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 Ten Hills 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 Ten Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.3968, Longitude: -71.0870 In this case, the coordinates for Ten Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 303.986 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.589 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.564 degrees.