Star map print · night sky print
The sky exactly as it stood the night they arrived.
A star map print — a star chart poster that draws the real constellations overhead at the precise minute and place of birth. A quiet, accurate night sky print of one irreplaceable moment.
Instant PDF · high-resolution · ready to frame · $9
What it shows
Not decoration — the actual sky.
Most “star maps” are a pretty pattern. This one is computed: move the time by an hour or the place by a country and the chart genuinely changes.
- The real sky
- Every visible bright star, placed where it actually stood — not a decorative scatter. A different minute or city gives a different chart.
- The horizon circle
- A clean disc framing the stars that were above the horizon at that place, the way you would have seen them looking up.
- Name & moment
- Their name set large in the display serif, with the date and time written in full beneath it.
- Place & coordinates
- The city, with its latitude and longitude, so the sky is anchored to a real spot on Earth.
How it’s computed
From a birth moment to a printed sky.
- 01
Start from the moment
The exact date and time become an instant in astronomical time. That instant fixes how far the sky has rotated.
- 02
Anchor it to a place
The birthplace’s latitude, longitude and time zone set your horizon — which stars were up, and where they sat in the bowl of the sky.
- 03
Project the stars
Each catalogued star is placed by its position and brightness onto a flat disc, so brighter stars read brighter on the page.
- 04
Compose for print
The chart is set into the poster with the name and details, then exported at high-resolution — crisp at true 50 × 70 size.
About the star data
Real positions, openly sourced.
The stars are placed from the HYG Database — an open astronomical catalogue compiled from the Hipparcos, Yale Bright Star and Gliese surveys. Each star carries a measured position and brightness, which is what lets the poster show the sky as it truly was rather than an invented constellation pattern.
We use it under its Creative Commons licence, which asks that the source be credited wherever the data is shared. That credit lives in the footer of every page and travels with each star-map poster:
Find your night.
Enter a date, time and city, and watch the exact sky appear. The live preview is the same render as your print-ready file.
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