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 Lewistown Junction:
47.053584, -109.416571
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 Lewistown Junction
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 Fergus County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
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Communities Also Named Lewistown Junction ...
We found one communities that are also named Lewistown Junction.
Within Montana, the name Lewistown Junction is unique.
Beyond Montana, there is another community also named Lewistown Junction in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Pennsylvania
Mifflin County
This Lewistown Junction is located in Mifflin County and lies 1,635 miles [2,631.3 km]<1> to the east of the Lewistown Junction that is located in Fergus County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mifflin County community of Lewistown Junction.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Lewistown Junction ...
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 Lewistown Junction to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Lewistown Junction and extending to:
Helena, which is the State Capital of Montana, lies 127 miles [204.4 km]<1> to the west southwest (WSW). If you could drive a straight line from Lewistown Junction to Helena, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,715 miles [2,760 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of three days, a buggy would take 67 days and walking would take 98 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,558 miles [10,554.1 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,327 miles [11,791.7 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,332 miles [8,581 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<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- Lewistown Junction) 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.
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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.
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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 Lewistown Junction 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 Lewistown Junction. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.0536, Longitude: -109.4166 In this case, the coordinates for Lewistown Junction have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 330.417 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 330.293 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 319.60 degrees.