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 Monte Carlo Estates:
36.038394, -86.706942
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 Monte Carlo 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 Davidson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
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Communities Also Named Monte Carlo Estates ...
We found one communities that are also named Monte Carlo Estates.
There is one other community in Tennessee that is also named Monte Carlo Estates.
Beyond Tennessee.
Communities Located In Tennessee ...
Bradley County
This Monte Carlo Estates is located in Bradley County and lies 118 miles [189.9 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Monte Carlo Estates that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bradley County community of Monte Carlo Estates.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Monte Carlo 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 Monte Carlo Estates to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Monte Carlo Estates and extending to:
Nashville, which is the Seat of Davidson County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the north northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Monte Carlo Estates to Nashville, with an average speed<2> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 9 miles [14.5 km] to the north northwest (NNW). The buggy would take a little over three hours and walking would take four to five hours.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 565 miles [909.3 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take just over a day, a buggy would take 22 days and walking would take 33 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,427 miles [10,343.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,145 miles [11,498.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,021 miles [8,080.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Monte Carlo Estates) 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.
<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 Monte Carlo 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 Monte Carlo Estates. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.0384, Longitude: -86.7069 In this case, the coordinates for Monte Carlo Estates have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.745 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.717 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.687 degrees.