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 Heather Knoll:
40.400172, -75.956369
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 Heather Knoll
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 one communities that are also named Heather Knoll.
There is one other community in Pennsylvania that is also named Heather Knoll.
Beyond Pennsylvania.
Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
Montgomery County
This Heather Knoll is located in Montgomery County and lies 39 miles [62.8 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Heather Knoll that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Heather Knoll.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Heather Knoll ...
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 Heather Knoll to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Heather Knoll and extending to:
Reading, which is the Seat of Berks County, lies just to the South Southeast.
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 49 miles [78.9 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could walk a straight line from Heather Knoll to Harrisburg, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take about three full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of two days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 118 miles [189.9 km] to the south southwest (SSW). 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<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,789 miles [9,316.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,498 miles [10,457.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,374 miles [7,039.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
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Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Heather Knoll) 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 Heather Knoll 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 Heather Knoll. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.4002, Longitude: -75.9564 In this case, the coordinates for Heather Knoll have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.135 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.818 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.648 degrees.