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 Brooklyn Heights:
36.204222, -86.786665
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 Brooklyn Heights
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 Davidson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found six communities that are also named Brooklyn Heights.
Within Tennessee, the name Brooklyn Heights is unique.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of six communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Los Angeles County
This Brooklyn Heights is located in Los Angeles County and lies 1,773 miles [2,853.4 km]<1> to the west of the Brooklyn Heights that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Los Angeles County community of Brooklyn Heights.
San Diego County
This Brooklyn Heights is located in San Diego County and lies 1,736 miles [2,793.8 km] to the west of the Brooklyn Heights that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the San Diego County community of Brooklyn Heights.
Indiana
Marion County
This Brooklyn Heights is located in Marion County and lies 251 miles [403.9 km]<1> to the north of the Brooklyn Heights that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marion County community of Brooklyn Heights.
Missouri
Jasper County
This Brooklyn Heights is located in Jasper County and lies 425 miles [684 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Brooklyn Heights that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jasper County community of Brooklyn Heights.
New York
Kings County
This Brooklyn Heights is located in Kings County and lies 757 miles [1,218.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Brooklyn Heights that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kings County community of Brooklyn Heights.
Ohio
Cuyahoga County
This Brooklyn Heights is located in Cuyahoga County and lies 453 miles [729 km]<1> to the northeast of the Brooklyn Heights that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cuyahoga County community of Brooklyn Heights.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Brooklyn Heights ...
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 Brooklyn Heights to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Brooklyn Heights and extending to:
Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies just to the south (S).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 564 miles [907.7 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Brooklyn Heights to White House, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 32 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 22 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,422 miles [10,335.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,141 miles [11,492.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,017 miles [8,074.1 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- Brooklyn Heights) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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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 Brooklyn Heights 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 Brooklyn Heights. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.2042, Longitude: -86.7867 In this case, the coordinates for Brooklyn Heights have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.801 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.804 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.682 degrees.