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Celestial Navigation

Celestial Navigation from directly overhead

Celestial Navigation is an artwork in Washington, at a modelled elevation of 107 m. Rattlesnake Mountain - Middle Peak stands 1,004 m to the east, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Blackleaf, a artwork 0.3 miles away. FAUNTLEROY TO SOUTHWORTH passes 7.0 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Material
metal
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates47.44562, -122.29599

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
Parks
  • Integration Peace Park: 0.9 mi
  • Crestview Park: 1.1 mi
  • Bow Lake Park: 1.2 mi
  • Valley Ridge Park: 1.2 mi
  • Angle Lake Manor Private Beach: 1.2 mi
Historic sites
Nature reserves
  • Walker Creek Preserve: 2.1 mi
  • Valley Floor Community Park: 2.5 mi
  • Springbrook Greenbelt: 2.8 mi
  • Green River Natural Resources Area: 3.0 mi
  • Ikuta Greenbelt: 3.2 mi
Museums
Gardens
  • Seike Japanese Garden: 2.3 mi
  • Seattle Rose Society: 2.3 mi
  • Elda Behm's Paradise Garden: 2.3 mi
  • Puget Sound Daylily Club: 2.4 mi
  • Cascadia Cultivars: 2.4 mi
Attractions
  • Space Needle of Renton: 4.7 mi
  • McDonnell Douglas F/A-18A Hornet: 5.0 mi
  • Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird: 5.0 mi
  • LEM: 5.0 mi
  • Wright Flyer: 5.0 mi
Peaks
  • High Point: 7.5 mi
  • Gravel Pit Peak: 8.9 mi
  • Marshall's Hill: 9.1 mi
  • Echo Mountain: 9.1 mi
  • First Hill: 9.8 mi
Beaches: 59
  • Pritchard Island Beach: 6.0 mi
  • 8th Avenue South Street End: 6.3 mi
  • Southwest 98th Street End: 6.7 mi
  • Kennydale Beach: 6.8 mi
  • Southwest Brace Point Drive Street End: 6.9 mi
Picnic sites: 40
  • Woodmont Country Club: 6.0 mi
  • Picnic Shelter 1: 7.3 mi
  • Picnic Shelter 2: 7.3 mi
  • Picnic Shelter 3: 7.3 mi
  • Picnic Shelter 4: 7.4 mi
Lighthouses: 14
Ghost towns: 10
Waterfalls: 9
  • Far Country Falls: 9.4 mi
  • North Fork Falls: 9.9 mi
  • Coal Creek Falls: 10.1 mi
  • Doughty Falls: 10.1 mi
  • Waterwall: 12.6 mi
Springs: 7
  • Ravenna Park Sulfur Spring: 15.6 mi
  • Licton Springs: 17.6 mi
  • Maplewood Spring: 18.8 mi
  • Garrison Springs: 22.4 mi
  • Duryea Roadside Hidden Spring: 23.1 mi
Cliffs: 4
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 24.5 miles of Celestial Navigation. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Rattlesnake Mountain - Middle PeakE 88°1,004 m22.9 mi
Rattlesnake Mountain - West PeakE 86°994.257 m22.2 mi
East Tiger MountainE 80°913 m16.6 mi
West Tiger #1ENE 75°891 m15.5 mi
Enumclaw MountainSE 126°849 m23.0 mi
West Tiger #2ENE 73°841 m15.2 mi
Tiger Middle SummitE 80°795 m15.5 mi
Taylor MountainE 88°792 m18.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4119:22
June solstice05:1320:2221:11
September equinox06:5718:2819:09
December solstice07:5515:2916:21

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F434447515862676763544742
Precip in5.83.84.23.21.91.40.61.01.63.96.35.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Seattle Tacoma AP, under a mile away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/12100097672

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