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 Starmount:
35.824318, -78.573613
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 Starmount
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 Starmount.
There are two communities within North Carolina that are also named Starmount.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Iredell County
This Starmount is located in Iredell County and lies 130 miles [209.2 km]<1> to the west of the Starmount that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Iredell County community of Starmount.
Mecklenburg County
This Starmount is located in Mecklenburg County and lies 137 miles [220.5 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Starmount that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mecklenburg County community of Starmount.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Muscogee County
This Starmount is located in Muscogee County and lies 430 miles [692 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Starmount that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Muscogee County community of Starmount.
South Carolina
Lexington County
This Starmount is located in Lexington County and lies 192 miles [309 km]<1> to the southwest of the Starmount that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lexington County community of Starmount.
Virginia
Roanoke County
This Starmount is located in Roanoke County and lies 130 miles [209.2 km]<1> to the northwest of the Starmount that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Roanoke County community of Starmount.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Starmount ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Starmount to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Starmount 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 Starmount 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 4,672 miles [7,518.9 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- Starmount) 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 Starmount 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 Starmount. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.8243, Longitude: -78.5736 In this case, the coordinates for Starmount have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.913 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.142 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.434 degrees.