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 Lakeside Estates:
34.752877, -82.951260
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 Lakeside Estates
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 Oconee County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found three communities that are also named Lakeside Estates.
Within South Carolina, the name Lakeside Estates is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Mississippi
Oktibbeha County
This Lakeside Estates is located in Oktibbeha County and lies 353 miles [568.1 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Lakeside Estates that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oktibbeha County community of Lakeside Estates.
Tennessee
Franklin County
This Lakeside Estates is located in Franklin County and lies 184 miles [296.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Lakeside Estates that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Lakeside Estates.
Montgomery County
This Lakeside Estates is located in Montgomery County and lies 274 miles [441 km] to the west northwest of the Lakeside Estates that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Lakeside Estates.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Lakeside Estates ...
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 Lakeside Estates to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Lakeside Estates and extending to:
Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 120 miles [193.1 km]<1> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could drive a straight line from Lakeside Estates to Columbia, with an average speed<2>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 434 miles [698.5 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 17 days and walking would take 25 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,332 miles [10,190.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,034 miles [11,320.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,912 miles [7,905.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Lakeside Estates) 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 Lakeside Estates 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 Lakeside Estates. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.7529, Longitude: -82.9513 In this case, the coordinates for Lakeside Estates have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.443 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.887 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.466 degrees.