Illumination
Illumination is an artwork in California, at a modelled elevation of 47 m. Mount Saint Helena stands 1,319 m to the north-northeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is City of Santa Rosa Sustainable Education Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away.
What the record says
- Material
- steel
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Rosa Californica: 0.0 mi
- Wood Pylon: 0.0 mi
- Bucephalus: 0.0 mi
- El Viejo: 0.0 mi
- Daphne: 0.0 mi
- Prince Greenway Park: 0.1 mi
- Sonoma Avenue Park: 0.1 mi
- Sonoma Avenue Park: 0.1 mi
- Rae Park: 0.2 mi
- Old Courthouse Square: 0.2 mi
- Taylor Mountain: 3.3 mi
- Cooks Peak: 3.8 mi
- Bennett Mountain: 5.1 mi
- Buzzard Peak: 6.4 mi
- Redwood Hill: 6.7 mi
- Snoopy and Charlie Brown Sculpture: 0.5 mi
- G.A.R. Memorial: 1.3 mi
- Memorial Rose Grove: 1.3 mi
- Native American Canoe: 1.3 mi
- Fountaingrove Inn Ruins: 2.7 mi
- Santa Rosa Pumpkin Patch: 6.3 mi
- Duckworth Family Farm: 8.4 mi
- The Petrified Forest: 9.0 mi
- Iron Horse Vineyards: 10.2 mi
- Sturgeons Steam Mill – Historic: 10.3 mi
- Steelhead Beach: 11.0 mi
- Children's Beach: 11.4 mi
- Mother’s Beach: 12.5 mi
- River Bend Beach: 13.2 mi
- Healdsburg Veterans Memorial Beach: 13.9 mi
- City of Santa Rosa Sustainable Education Garden: 0.0 mi
- Luther Burbank Home and Gardens: 0.2 mi
- Reading Garden: 0.2 mi
- Hyatt Hotel Gardens: 0.4 mi
- Sculpture Garden: 0.4 mi
- Sonoma County Art Museum: 0.4 mi
- Sonoma County Museum: 0.4 mi
- Jesse Peter Museum: 1.3 mi
- Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center: 2.0 mi
- Children's Museum of Sonoma County: 2.1 mi
- Taylor Mountain Regional Park and Open Space Preserve: 2.2 mi
- Owls Nest Open Space: 4.4 mi
- Shiloh Ranch Regional Park: 6.5 mi
- Fairfield Osborn Preserve: 9.0 mi
- Hood Mountain - McCormick Ranch Addition: 10.2 mi
- Birthday Party Area: 2.6 mi
- Oak Savanna Group Picnic Area: 7.6 mi
- Lawson Picnic Area: 7.7 mi
- Creekside Picnic Area: 7.9 mi
- McNear Park: 15.3 mi
- Sunset Point: 15.8 mi
- Osprey Rocks: 17.2 mi
- White Point: 18.6 mi
- Ingalls Bluff: 19.5 mi
- Tomales Bluff: 20.6 mi
- Hunter Spring: 4.2 mi
- Rattlesnake Spring: 17.5 mi
- Skaggs Springs: 24.4 mi
- Sonoma Creek Falls: 10.2 mi
- Linda Falls: 16.7 mi
- Haraszthy Falls: 18.8 mi
- Hole in the Rock: 15.7 mi
- Arched Rock: 22.4 mi
- Wingo: 20.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.5 miles of Illumination. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Saint Helena | NNE 15° | 1,319 m | 16.5 mi |
| Mount Saint Helena South Peak | NNE 19° | 1,220 m | 16.0 mi |
| Old Baldy | NE 43° | 836 m | 16.5 mi |
| Mount Hood | E 80° | 833 m | 8.7 mi |
| The Beehive | NE 45° | 833 m | 16.3 mi |
| Bald Mountain | E 83° | 832 m | 11.0 mi |
| Flat Top | NE 44° | 832 m | 16.2 mi |
| Browns Hill | NE 36° | 825 m | 15.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:15 | 18:48 | 19:23 |
| June solstice | 05:48 | 19:59 | 20:39 |
| September equinox | 06:59 | 18:34 | 19:09 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 16:13 | 16:54 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 49 | 52 | 54 | 57 | 61 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 68 | 63 | 55 | 49 |
| Precip in | 5.8 | 6.4 | 4.3 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 3.3 | 6.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Santa Rosa, 1 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/12383641953
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