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 Denny Corner:
33.303500, -79.234494
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 Denny Corner
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 Georgetown County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found one communities that are also named Denny Corner.
Within South Carolina, the name Denny Corner is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, there is another community also named Denny Corner in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Indiana
Hancock County
This Denny Corner is located in Hancock County and lies 582 miles [936.6 km]<1> to the northwest of the Denny Corner that is located in Georgetown County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hancock County community of Denny Corner.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Denny Corner ...
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 Denny Corner to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Denny Corner and extending to:
Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 114 miles [183.5 km]<1> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could drive a straight line from Denny Corner to Columbia, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 7 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 405 miles [651.8 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 16 days and walking would take 23 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,234 miles [10,032.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,919 miles [11,135.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,806 miles [7,734.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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- Denny Corner) 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 Denny Corner 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 Denny Corner. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.3035, Longitude: -79.2345 In this case, the coordinates for Denny Corner have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.308 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.226 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.469 degrees.