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 Pablo:
47.602211, -114.112822
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.
We found one communities that are also named Pablo.
Within Montana, the name Pablo is unique.
Beyond Montana.
While we haven't found any other communities named Pablo in either the United States or Canada, we know of another community located outside of the United States and Canada.
Communities Beyond North America ...
Cuba
Distance: 2,657 miles [4,276 km]<1> to the east southeast
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 Pablo to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Pablo and extending to:
Polson, which is the Seat of Lake County, lies just to the North Northwest.
Helena, which is the State Capital of Montana, lies 120 miles [193.1 km]<1> to the southeast (SE). If you could drive a straight line from Pablo to Helena, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 7 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,938 miles [3,118.9 km] to the east (E). Driving would take three full days, a buggy would take 76 days and walking would take 111 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,627 miles [10,665.1 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 7,395 miles [11,901.1 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,441 miles [8,756.4 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Pablo) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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.
<4>
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 Pablo 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 Pablo. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.6022, Longitude: -114.1128
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 334.166 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 334.665 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 322.455 degrees.