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The Sky Above Elizabeth II at the Moment of Death
Person · 1926–2022 · Time recorded
The record
- Date of death: 2022-09-08
- Time of death (local): 15:10 (Time recorded) — Her death certificate, published by National Records of Scotland, records 3:10 p.m. at Balmoral Castle; the public was told at 6:30 p.m., over three hours later.
- Place: Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom
- UTC: 2022-09-08T14:10Z
The sky at that moment
- Zenith (the point directly overhead): RA 196.66°, Dec 57.16°
Star closest to the zenith
Computed with the same standard astronomy as our free calculator: the recorded time and place give the local sidereal time, which fixes the zenith; the closest star by angular distance inside a ±15° declination band of the real catalog is selected. What is shown here is the purely astronomical result — the nearest star to the zenith.
- Catalog ID: HIP 63956
- Constellation: Ursa Major
- Magnitude: 7.48
- Distance (light-years): 813.4
- Angular distance from zenith (degrees): 0.1397°
Brightest stars in that sky
The brightest real stars (catalog IDs from the HYG star catalog — mostly Hipparcos/HIP numbers) that were above 10° altitude at that same moment.
- HIP 91262 — Lyra, Magnitude 0.03 (35.6°)
- HIP 24608 — Auriga, Magnitude 0.08 (25.3°)
- HYG 118360 — Auriga, Magnitude 0.96 (25.3°)
- HIP 65474 — Virgo, Magnitude 0.98 (21.7°)
- HIP 37826 — Gemini, Magnitude 1.16 (28.2°)
Sources & verification
Last verified: 2026-09-17
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