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 Ludington:
47.826129, -104.061600
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 Ludington
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 Richland County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found four communities that are also named Ludington.
Within Montana, the name Ludington is unique.
Beyond Montana, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Louisiana
Beauregard Parish
This Ludington is located in Beauregard Parish and lies 1,301 miles [2,093.8 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Ludington that is located in Richland County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Beauregard Parish community of Ludington.
Michigan
Mason County
This Ludington is located in Mason County and lies 885 miles [1,424.3 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Ludington that is located in Richland County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mason County community of Ludington.
Ohio
Perry County
This Ludington is located in Perry County and lies 1,226 miles [1,973.1 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Ludington that is located in Richland County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Perry County community of Ludington.
Wisconsin
Eau Claire County
This Ludington is located in Eau Claire County and lies 649 miles [1,044.5 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Ludington that is located in Richland County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Eau Claire County community of Ludington.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Ludington ...
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 & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Ludington to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Ludington and extending to:
Helena, which is the State Capital of Montana, lies 382 miles [614.8 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Ludington to Helena, 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 22 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 15 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,480 miles [2,381.8 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take most of three days, a buggy would take 58 days and walking would take 84 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,382 miles [10,270.8 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 7,149 miles [11,505.2 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,125 miles [8,247.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
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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- Ludington) 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 Ludington 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 Ludington. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.8261, Longitude: -104.0616 In this case, the coordinates for Ludington have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 326.298 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 325.643 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 316.206 degrees.