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 Shadow Ridge:
40.448678, -75.876070
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 Shadow Ridge
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 Shadow Ridge.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Shadow Ridge is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Shadow Ridge is located in Hillsborough County and lies 943 miles [1,517.6 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Shadow Ridge that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Shadow Ridge.
Utah
Davis County
Although located in Davis County, we don't know the location within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davis County community of Shadow Ridge.
Salt Lake County
This Shadow Ridge is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,875 miles [3,017.5 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Shadow Ridge that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Shadow Ridge.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Shadow Ridge ...
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 Shadow Ridge to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Shadow Ridge and extending to:
Reading, which is the Seat of Berks County, lies just to the South Southwest.
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 54 miles [86.9 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could walk a straight line from Shadow Ridge to Harrisburg, with an average speed<3> 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 123 miles [197.9 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 5,783 miles [9,306.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,492 miles [10,447.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,368 miles [7,029.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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- Shadow Ridge) 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.
<3>
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.
<4>
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 Shadow Ridge 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 Shadow Ridge. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.4487, Longitude: -75.8761 In this case, the coordinates for Shadow Ridge have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.083 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.766 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.593 degrees.