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 Pecan Acres:
35.830984, -78.578058
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 Pecan Acres
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 Pecan Acres.
Within North Carolina, the name Pecan Acres is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Maryland
Wicomico County
This Pecan Acres is located in Wicomico County and lies 239 miles [384.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Pecan Acres that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wicomico County community of Pecan Acres.
Mississippi
Oktibbeha County
This Pecan Acres is located in Oktibbeha County and lies 604 miles [972 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Pecan Acres that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oktibbeha County community of Pecan Acres.
South Carolina
Sumter County
This Pecan Acres is located in Sumter County and lies 164 miles [263.9 km]<1> to the southwest of the Pecan Acres that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sumter County community of Pecan Acres.
Texas
Tarrant County
This Pecan Acres is located in Tarrant County and lies 1,092 miles [1,757.4 km]<1> to the west of the Pecan Acres that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tarrant County community of Pecan Acres.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Pecan Acres ...
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 Pecan Acres to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Pecan Acres and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies just to the southwest (SW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 228 miles [366.9 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Pecan Acres 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 6,095 miles [9,809 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,791 miles [10,929.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,671 miles [7,517.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Pecan Acres) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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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.
<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 Pecan Acres 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 Pecan Acres. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.8310, Longitude: -78.5781 In this case, the coordinates for Pecan Acres have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.916 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.146 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.433 degrees.