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 Charmingdale:
40.381150, -75.769680
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 Charmingdale
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 Berks County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found three communities that are also named Charmingdale.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Charmingdale is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Mobile County
This Charmingdale is located in Mobile County and lies 962 miles [1,548.2 km]<1> to the southwest of the Charmingdale that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mobile County community of Charmingdale.
Arizona
Yavapai County
This community is historic<2> and although located in Yavapai County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Yavapai County community of Charmingdale.
Louisiana
Ouachita Parish
This Charmingdale is located in Ouachita Parish and lies 1,059 miles [1,704.3 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Charmingdale that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ouachita Parish community of Charmingdale.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Charmingdale ...
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 Charmingdale to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Charmingdale and extending to:
Reading, which is the Seat of Berks County, lies just to the West Southwest.
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 58 miles [93.3 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could walk a straight line from Charmingdale to Harrisburg, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take over two days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 122 miles [196.3 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
The shortest distance<5> 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).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,490 miles [10,444.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,366 miles [7,026.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
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 from Point A (ie- Charmingdale) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Charmingdale, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>
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.
<5>
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 Charmingdale 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 Charmingdale. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.3811, Longitude: -75.7697 In this case, the coordinates for Charmingdale have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.025 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.69 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.575 degrees.