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 Rosemont Park:
42.656746, -73.711508
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 Rosemont Park
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 one communities that are also named Rosemont Park.
Within New York, the name Rosemont Park is unique.
Beyond New York, there is another community also named Rosemont Park in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Floyd County
This Rosemont Park is located in Floyd County and lies 849 miles [1,366.3 km]<1> to the southwest of the Rosemont Park that is located in Rensselaer County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Floyd County community of Rosemont Park.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Rosemont Park ...
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 Rosemont Park to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Rosemont Park and extending to:
Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies just to the west (W).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 312 miles [502.1 km]<1> to the southwest (SW). If you could drive a straight line from Rosemont Park to White House, with an average speed<3>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 13 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,603 miles [9,017.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,317 miles [10,166.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,192 miles [6,746.4 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 from Point A (ie- Rosemont Park) 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.
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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.
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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 Rosemont Park 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 Rosemont Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.6567, Longitude: -73.7115 In this case, the coordinates for Rosemont Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.538 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.379 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.632 degrees.