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 Sun Prairie:
47.845553, -107.746501
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 Sun Prairie
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 Phillips County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found two communities that are also named Sun Prairie.
There is one other community in Montana that is also named Sun Prairie.
Beyond Montana, there is another community also named Sun Prairie in the United States.
Communities Located In Montana ...
Cascade County
This Sun Prairie is located in Cascade County and lies 174 miles [280 km]<1> to the west of the Sun Prairie that is located in Phillips County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cascade County community of Sun Prairie.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Wisconsin
Dane County
This Sun Prairie is located in Dane County and lies 949 miles [1,527.3 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Sun Prairie that is located in Phillips County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dane County community of Sun Prairie.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Sun Prairie ...
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.
Box Elder ‑ Historic (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
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 Sun Prairie to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Sun Prairie and extending to:
Malta, which is the Seat of Phillips County, lies 35 miles [56.3 km]<1> to the north. If you could walk a straight line from Sun Prairie to Malta, with an average speed<2> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just about two full days.
Helena, which is the State Capital of Montana, lies 218 miles [350.8 km] to the west southwest (WSW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 9 days and walking would take 13 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,647 miles [2,650.6 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of three days, a buggy would take 65 days and walking would take 94 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,472 miles [10,415.7 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,241 miles [11,653.3 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,239 miles [8,431.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Sun Prairie) 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 Sun Prairie 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 Sun Prairie. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.8456, Longitude: -107.7465 In this case, the coordinates for Sun Prairie have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 329.143 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 328.904 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 318.449 degrees.