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 Bay Ridge:
40.627870, -74.029261
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 Bay Ridge
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 Kings County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found five communities that are also named Bay Ridge.
Within New York, the name Bay Ridge is unique.
Beyond New York, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Orange County
This Bay Ridge is located in Orange County and lies 923 miles [1,485.4 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Bay Ridge that is located in Kings County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Orange County community of Bay Ridge.
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This Bay Ridge is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 173 miles [278.4 km]<1> to the southwest of the Bay Ridge that is located in Kings County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Bay Ridge.
Harford County
This Bay Ridge is located in Harford County and lies 137 miles [220.5 km] to the west southwest of the Bay Ridge that is located in Kings County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harford County community of Bay Ridge.
Texas
Galveston County
This Bay Ridge is located in Galveston County and lies 1,407 miles [2,264.3 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Bay Ridge that is located in Kings County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Galveston County community of Bay Ridge.
Virginia
Northampton County
This Bay Ridge is located in Northampton County and lies 258 miles [415.2 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Bay Ridge that is located in Kings County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Northampton County community of Bay Ridge.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Bay Ridge ...
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 Bay Ridge to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Bay Ridge and extending to:
Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 140 miles [225.3 km]<1> to the north (N). If you could drive a straight line from Bay Ridge to Albany, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 199 miles [320.3 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 12 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,698 miles [9,170 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,404 miles [10,306.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,280 miles [6,888 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Bay Ridge) 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 Bay Ridge 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 Bay Ridge. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.6279, Longitude: -74.0293
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.966 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.53 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.712 degrees.