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 Wittenberg:
39.784169, -78.923490
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 Wittenberg
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 Somerset County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found four communities that are also named Wittenberg.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Wittenberg is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Missouri
Perry County
This Wittenberg is located in Perry County and lies 589 miles [947.9 km]<1> to the west of the Wittenberg that is located in Somerset County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Perry County community of Wittenberg.
New York
Ulster County
This Wittenberg is located in Ulster County and lies 291 miles [468.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Wittenberg that is located in Somerset County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ulster County community of Wittenberg.
South Dakota
Hutchinson County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Wittenberg [Hutchinson County].
Wisconsin
Shawano County
This Wittenberg is located in Shawano County and lies 627 miles [1,009.1 km]<1> to the northwest of the Wittenberg that is located in Somerset County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shawano County community of Wittenberg.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Wittenberg ...
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.
Georges Creek (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
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 Wittenberg to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Wittenberg and extending to:
Somerset, which is the Seat of Somerset County, lies 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> to the north northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Wittenberg to Somerset, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take five to six hours.
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 113 miles [181.9 km] to the east northeast (ENE). 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 White House (Washington, DC) is 117 miles [188.3 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving 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 5,938 miles [9,556.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,652 miles [10,705.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,527 miles [7,285.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<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- Wittenberg) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.
Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.
Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.
Also keep in mind that Wittenberg could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<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 Wittenberg 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 Wittenberg. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.7842, Longitude: -78.9235
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.965 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.797 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.189 degrees.