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 Union Gap:
43.406507, -123.313966
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 Union Gap
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 Douglas County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found one communities that are also named Union Gap.
Within Oregon, the name Union Gap is unique.
Beyond Oregon, there is another community also named Union Gap in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Washington
Yakima County
This Union Gap is located in Yakima County and lies 257 miles [413.6 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Union Gap that is located in Douglas County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Yakima County community of Union Gap.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Union Gap ...
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 Union Gap to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Union Gap and extending to:
Roseburg, which is the Seat of Douglas County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> to the south. If you could walk a straight line from Union Gap to Roseburg, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
Salem, which is the State Capital of Oregon, lies 106 miles [170.6 km] to the north (N). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,395 miles [3,854.4 km] to the east (E). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 94 days and walking would take 136 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,063 miles [11,366.8 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,826 miles [12,594.7 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,931 miles [9,545 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>'
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Union Gap) 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 Union Gap 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 Union Gap. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.4065, Longitude: -123.3140 In this case, the coordinates for Union Gap have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 341.447 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 342.898 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 328.633 degrees.