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 Pickwick Village:
35.870428, -78.705282
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 Pickwick 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 one communities that are also named Pickwick Village.
Within North Carolina, the name Pickwick Village is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, there is another community also named Pickwick Village in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Volusia County
This Pickwick Village is located in Volusia County and lies 484 miles [778.9 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Pickwick Village that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Volusia County community of Pickwick Village.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Pickwick 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.
Chestnut Hills (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
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 Pickwick Village to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Pickwick 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 228 miles [366.9 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Pickwick 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 6,099 miles [9,815.4 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 '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- Pickwick 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 Pickwick 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 Pickwick Village. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.8704, Longitude: -78.7053 In this case, the coordinates for Pickwick Village have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.987 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.233 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.469 degrees.