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 Clinton Heights:
42.618969, -73.734009
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 Clinton Heights
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 Rensselaer County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found two communities that are also named Clinton Heights.
Within New York, the name Clinton Heights is unique.
Beyond New York, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Pasco County
This Clinton Heights is located in Pasco County and lies 1,093 miles [1,759 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Clinton Heights that is located in Rensselaer County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pasco County community of Clinton Heights.
Maryland
Prince George's County
This Clinton Heights is located in Prince George's County and lies 312 miles [502.1 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Clinton Heights that is located in Rensselaer County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Prince George's County community of Clinton Heights.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Clinton Heights ...
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 & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Clinton Heights to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Clinton Heights and extending to:
Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies just to the north northwest (NNW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 309 miles [497.3 km]<1> to the southwest (SW). If you could drive a straight line from Clinton Heights to White House, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 18 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 12 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,605 miles [9,020.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,319 miles [10,169.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,194 miles [6,749.6 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Clinton Heights) 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 Clinton Heights 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 Clinton Heights. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.6190, Longitude: -73.7340 In this case, the coordinates for Clinton Heights have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.557 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.393 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.66 degrees.