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 Pirates Cove:
35.762652, -78.763894
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 Pirates Cove
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 Pirates Cove.
Within North Carolina, the name Pirates Cove is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Monroe County
This Pirates Cove is located in Monroe County and lies 784 miles [1,261.7 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Pirates Cove that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monroe County community of Pirates Cove.
Ohio
Pike County
This Pirates Cove is located in Pike County and lies 328 miles [527.9 km]<1> to the northwest of the Pirates Cove that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pike County community of Pirates Cove.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Pirates Cove ...
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 Pirates Cove to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Pirates Cove and extending to:
The White House (Washington, DC) is 236 miles [379.8 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Pirates Cove 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 14 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 10 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,106 miles [9,826.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,802 miles [10,946.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,683 miles [7,536.6 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Pirates Cove) 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 Pirates Cove 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 Pirates Cove. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.7627, Longitude: -78.7639 In this case, the coordinates for Pirates Cove have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.023 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.258 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.528 degrees.