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 Fairview Estates:
39.983451, -74.145417
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 Fairview Estates
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 Ocean County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found five communities that are also named Fairview Estates.
Within New Jersey, the name Fairview Estates is unique.
Beyond New Jersey, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Houston County
This Fairview Estates is located in Houston County and lies 733 miles [1,179.6 km]<1> to the southwest of the Fairview Estates that is located in Ocean County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Houston County community of Fairview Estates.
Maryland
Calvert County
This Fairview Estates is located in Calvert County and lies 159 miles [255.9 km]<1> to the southwest of the Fairview Estates that is located in Ocean County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Calvert County community of Fairview Estates.
Montgomery County
This Fairview Estates is located in Montgomery County and lies 164 miles [263.9 km] to the west southwest of the Fairview Estates that is located in Ocean County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Fairview Estates.
Tennessee
Putnam County
This Fairview Estates is located in Putnam County and lies 667 miles [1,073.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Fairview Estates that is located in Ocean County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Putnam County community of Fairview Estates.
Virginia
Culpeper County
This Fairview Estates is located in Culpeper County and lies 234 miles [376.6 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Fairview Estates that is located in Ocean County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Culpeper County community of Fairview Estates.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Fairview Estates ...
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 Fairview Estates to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Fairview Estates and extending to:
Trenton, which is the State Capital of New Jersey, lies 36 miles [57.9 km]<1> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could walk a straight line from Fairview Estates to Trenton, with an average speed<2> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take over two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just about two full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 171 miles [275.2 km] to the west southwest (WSW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about three hours, a buggy would take 7 days and walking would take 10 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,729 miles [9,219.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,432 miles [10,351.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,310 miles [6,936.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<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- Fairview Estates) 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 Fairview Estates 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 Fairview Estates. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.9835, Longitude: -74.1454 In this case, the coordinates for Fairview Estates have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.101 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.58 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.047 degrees.