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 Glenwood Village:
35.817929, -78.664448
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 Glenwood Village
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 two communities that are also named Glenwood Village.
There is one other community in North Carolina that is also named Glenwood Village.
Beyond North Carolina, there is another community also named Glenwood Village in the United States.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Lee County
This Glenwood Village is located in Lee County and lies 37 miles [59.5 km]<1> to the southwest of the Glenwood Village that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lee County community of Glenwood Village.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
New York
Suffolk County
This Glenwood Village is located in Suffolk County and lies 477 miles [767.7 km]<1> to the northeast of the Glenwood Village that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Suffolk County community of Glenwood Village.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Glenwood Village ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Glenwood Village to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Glenwood Village and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the Seat of Wake County, lies just to the South Southeast.
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies just to the south southeast (SSE).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 230 miles [370.1 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Glenwood Village to White House, with an average speed<2>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 13 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 9 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,100 miles [9,817 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,795 miles [10,935.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,676 miles [7,525.3 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Glenwood Village) 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 Glenwood Village 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 Glenwood Village. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.8179, Longitude: -78.6644 In this case, the coordinates for Glenwood Village have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.965 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.20 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.471 degrees.