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 Central Square:
39.996777, -75.406306
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 Central Square
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 Delaware County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found two communities that are also named Central Square.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Central Square is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Massachusetts
Middlesex County
This Central Square is located in Middlesex County and lies 280 miles [450.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Central Square that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Middlesex County community of Central Square.
New York
Oswego County
This Central Square is located in Oswego County and lies 230 miles [370.1 km]<1> to the north of the Central Square that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oswego County community of Central Square.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Central Square ...
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 Central Square to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Central Square and extending to:
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 80 miles [128.7 km]<1> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could drive a straight line from Central Square to Harrisburg, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 115 miles [185.1 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,782 miles [9,305.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,488 miles [10,441.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,365 miles [7,024.8 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Central Square) 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 Central Square 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 Central Square. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.9968, Longitude: -75.4063 In this case, the coordinates for Central Square have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.843 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.423 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.579 degrees.