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 Deephaven:
44.929312, -93.523816
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 Deephaven
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 Hennepin County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found one communities that are also named Deephaven.
Within Minnesota, the name Deephaven is unique.
Beyond Minnesota, there is another community also named Deephaven in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
New Hampshire
Grafton County
This Deephaven is located in Grafton County and lies 1,085 miles [1,746.1 km]<1> to the east of the Deephaven that is located in Hennepin County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Grafton County community of Deephaven.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Deephaven ...
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 city such as Deephaven to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Deephaven and extending to:
Minneapolis, which is the Seat of Hennepin County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> to the east northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Deephaven to Minneapolis, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
Saint Paul, which is the State Capital of Minnesota, lies 21 miles [33.8 km] to the east (E). The buggy would take most of a day and walking would take just over a day.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 941 miles [1,514.4 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of two days, a buggy would take 37 days and walking would take 54 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,233 miles [10,031 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,988 miles [11,246.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,898 miles [7,882.6 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Deephaven) 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.
<3>
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 Deephaven 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 Deephaven. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.9293, Longitude: -93.5238 In this case, the coordinates for Deephaven have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 318.479 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 316.361 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.795 degrees.