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 Brookstone:
35.787373, -78.866396
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 Brookstone
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 Wake County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found four communities that are also named Brookstone.
Within North Carolina, the name Brookstone is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Clarke County
This Brookstone is located in Clarke County and lies 284 miles [457.1 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Brookstone that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clarke County community of Brookstone.
Douglas County
This Brookstone is located in Douglas County and lies 356 miles [572.9 km] to the west southwest of the Brookstone that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Douglas County community of Brookstone.
Muscogee County
This Brookstone is located in Muscogee County and lies 415 miles [667.9 km] to the west southwest of the Brookstone that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Muscogee County community of Brookstone.
Virginia
Stafford County
This Brookstone is located in Stafford County and lies 191 miles [307.4 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Brookstone that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stafford County community of Brookstone.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Brookstone ...
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 Brookstone to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Brookstone and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the Seat of Wake County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> to the east. If you could walk a straight line from Brookstone to Raleigh, 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.
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 12 miles [19.3 km] to the east (E). The buggy would take nearly four hours and walking would take five to six hours.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 237 miles [381.4 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 10 days and walking would take 14 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,110 miles [9,833.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,806 miles [10,953.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,686 miles [7,541.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Brookstone) 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 Brookstone 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 Brookstone. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.7874, Longitude: -78.8664 In this case, the coordinates for Brookstone have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.081 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.328 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.559 degrees.