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 Barneston:
47.387602, -121.861222
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 Barneston
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 King County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found two communities that are also named Barneston.
Within Washington, the name Barneston is unique.
Beyond Washington, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Nebraska
Gage County
This Barneston is located in Gage County and lies 1,352 miles [2,175.8 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Barneston that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gage County community of Barneston.
Pennsylvania
Chester County
This Barneston is located in Chester County and lies 2,316 miles [3,727.2 km]<1> to the east of the Barneston that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chester County community of Barneston.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Barneston ...
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.
Black Diamond (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
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 Barneston to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Barneston and extending to:
Seattle, which is the Seat of King County, lies 26 miles [41.8 km]<1> to the northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Barneston to Seattle, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just about two full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just over a day.
Olympia, which is the State Capital of Washington, lies 54 miles [86.9 km] to the west southwest (WSW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take over two days and walking would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,299 miles [3,699.9 km] to the east (E). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 90 days and walking would take 131 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,780 miles [10,911.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,543 miles [12,139.3 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,660 miles [9,108.9 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<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- Barneston) 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.
<3>
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.
<4>
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 Barneston 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 Barneston. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.3876, Longitude: -121.8612 In this case, the coordinates for Barneston have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 340.473 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 341.953 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 327.466 degrees.