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 Hampton Manor:
42.620913, -73.728453
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 Hampton Manor
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 Hampton Manor.
Within New York, the name Hampton Manor is unique.
Beyond New York, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Kentucky
Clark County
This Hampton Manor is located in Clark County and lies 636 miles [1,023.5 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Hampton Manor that is located in Rensselaer County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clark County community of Hampton Manor.
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This Hampton Manor is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 285 miles [458.7 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Hampton Manor that is located in Rensselaer County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Hampton Manor.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Hampton Manor ...
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 Hampton Manor to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Hampton Manor and extending to:
Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies just to the northwest (NW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 309 miles [497.3 km]<1> to the southwest (SW). If you could drive a straight line from Hampton Manor 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hampton Manor) 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 Hampton Manor 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 Hampton Manor. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.6209, Longitude: -73.7285 In this case, the coordinates for Hampton Manor have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.553 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.39 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.657 degrees.