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The Sky Above Steve Jobs at the Moment of Death
Person · 1955–2011 · Approximate time
The record
- Date of death: 2011-10-05
- Time of death (local): 15:00 (Approximate time) — The Santa Clara County death certificate, obtained by Bloomberg, gives "about 3 p.m." at his Palo Alto home — effectively a ±30 minute window.
- Place: Palo Alto, California, United States
- UTC: 2011-10-05T22:00Z
The sky at that moment
- Zenith (the point directly overhead): RA 221.97°, Dec 37.49°
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 72393
- Constellation: Boötes
- Magnitude: 8.24
- Distance (light-years): 1436.8
- Angular distance from zenith (degrees): 0.1844°
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 (45.8°)
- HIP 97649 — Aquila, Magnitude 0.76 (16.8°)
- HIP 65474 — Virgo, Magnitude 0.98 (37.6°)
- HIP 80763 — Scorpius, Magnitude 1.06 (21.9°)
- HIP 102098 — Cygnus, Magnitude 1.25 (26.7°)
Sources & verification
Last verified: 2026-09-17
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