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 Longmeadow:
41.704268, -71.374498
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 Longmeadow
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 Kent County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found three communities that are also named Longmeadow.
Within Rhode Island, the name Longmeadow is unique.
Beyond Rhode Island, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This Longmeadow is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 326 miles [524.6 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Longmeadow that is located in Kent County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Longmeadow.
Harford County
This Longmeadow is located in Harford County and lies 299 miles [481.2 km] to the west southwest of the Longmeadow that is located in Kent County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harford County community of Longmeadow.
Massachusetts
Hampden County
This Longmeadow is located in Hampden County and lies 66 miles [106.2 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Longmeadow that is located in Kent County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hampden County community of Longmeadow.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Longmeadow ...
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 Longmeadow to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Longmeadow and extending to:
Providence, which is the State Capital of Rhode Island, lies just to the north northwest (NNW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 355 miles [571.3 km]<1> to the west southwest (WSW). If you could drive a straight line from Longmeadow to White House, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 21 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 14 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,542 miles [8,919 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,247 miles [10,053.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,124 miles [6,636.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Longmeadow) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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.
<3>
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 Longmeadow 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 Longmeadow. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.7043, Longitude: -71.3745 In this case, the coordinates for Longmeadow have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.259 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.78 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.043 degrees.