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 Glen Eden:
35.820151, -78.695560
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 Glen Eden
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 five communities that are also named Glen Eden.
Within North Carolina, the name Glen Eden is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of five communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these five communities, four are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Colorado
Routt County
This Glen Eden is located in Routt County and lies 1,559 miles [2,509 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Glen Eden that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Routt County community of Glen Eden.
Indiana
Steuben County
This Glen Eden is located in Steuben County and lies 529 miles [851.3 km]<1> to the northwest of the Glen Eden that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Steuben County community of Glen Eden.
Ontario
This Glen Eden lies 492 miles [791.8 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Glen Eden that is located in Wake County.
Pennsylvania
Butler County
This Glen Eden is located in Butler County and lies 347 miles [558.4 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Glen Eden that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Butler County community of Glen Eden.
Texas
Grayson County
This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Glen Eden [Grayson County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Glen Eden ...
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.
Chestnut Hills (3 miles [4.8 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 Glen Eden to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Glen Eden and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies just to the southeast (SE).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 231 miles [371.8 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Glen Eden to White House, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take nearly four hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 14 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 9 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,101 miles [9,818.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,796 miles [10,937.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,677 miles [7,526.9 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- Glen Eden) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Glen Eden, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Glen Eden 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 Glen Eden. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.8202, Longitude: -78.6956 In this case, the coordinates for Glen Eden have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.983 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.221 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.482 degrees.