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 Looneyville:
42.931069, -78.578249
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 Looneyville
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 Erie County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found two communities that are also named Looneyville.
Within New York, the name Looneyville is unique.
Beyond New York, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Texas
Nacogdoches County
This Looneyville is located in Nacogdoches County and lies 1,176 miles [1,892.6 km]<1> to the southwest of the Looneyville that is located in Erie County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Nacogdoches County community of Looneyville.
West Virginia
Roane County
This Looneyville is located in Roane County and lies 327 miles [526.3 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Looneyville that is located in Erie County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Roane County community of Looneyville.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Looneyville ...
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 Looneyville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Looneyville and extending to:
Buffalo, which is the Seat of Erie County, lies 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> to the west. If you could walk a straight line from Looneyville to Buffalo, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 244 miles [392.7 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 10 days and walking would take 14 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 289 miles [465.1 km] to the south southeast (SSE). Driving would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 12 days and walking would take 17 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,788 miles [9,314.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,513 miles [10,481.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,389 miles [7,063.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Looneyville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>
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.
<4>
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 Looneyville 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 Looneyville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.9311, Longitude: -78.5782 In this case, the coordinates for Looneyville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.533 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.797 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.797 degrees.