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Every big moment has a sky.

Your wedding night, a first home, the night someone arrived. Pick a moment and a place, and we draw the real sky above it, right here in your browser.

Printable files; frames and props are not included.

Your star map

Choose your moment

Choose the date of your moment.

Choose the city.

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By default the offset comes from the place's time zone history (IANA tzdb 2026e with backzone). It's printed on the map when Sky details (under Caption) is on.

Your map is calculated in your browser. Nothing you type is sent or stored.

What a star map shows

A star map is a calculated chart of the sky above a place at a chosen time. It shows catalog stars, constellations, the Moon and planets above the horizon. Their positions come from astronomical calculations for your date, time and place. Colors, brightness, landscapes and decorative effects are styled for the artwork.

A stylized sky chart, not a photograph. Stars are shown as if the sky were dark; actual visibility depends on local conditions.

How it works

  1. Choose the moment. Enter a date and, if you know it, a time. No time? We use 9 PM for a wedding, anniversary, new baby or birthday, and noon for everything else, by the local clock, and say so on the map.
  2. Choose a place. Start typing a city and pick it from the list. The sky shifts with latitude, so the place matters.
  3. Choose a style. Midnight atlas, Painted horizon, Celestial plate or Galaxy: the same sky, framed four different ways.
  4. Add your words. A title, names, a short line of your own and a featured star. Then save an image for your screen, or have a printable version made through our Etsy shop.
A framed star map of the night sky above Chicago hanging over a bedA cream-colored star map of the sky on a birth date hanging above a crib
Printable files; frames and props are not included.

Good to know

  • Everything is computed in your browser. Nothing you enter into the map is sent or stored.
  • Stars are drawn as if the sky were dark, so a daytime moment shows the Sun among them. In the far north or south, 9 PM can still be daylight.
  • Positions are astronomical facts for the date, time and place you give. They are not a prediction.

Moments people choose

A wedding or an anniversary, a graduation, the night a baby arrived, the first night in a new home, or simply the night you were born. Browse the ideas for weddings, anniversaries, new babies, your own birth night and gifts. New to the sky? Astrology 101 with Sage explains the basics in plain language.

Credits

Stars: the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Edition (Hoffleit & Warren, 1991; NASA/NSSDC Astronomical Data Center, via CDS), and constellation figures, via d3-celestial (BSD-3, Olaf Frohn). Sun, Moon and planets: Astronomy Engine (MIT, Don Cross). Sidereal offset: precomputed with the Swiss Ephemeris (Astrodienst). Moon texture: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, Moon Kit (SVS 4720), adapted. Milky Way: ESO/S. Brunier, image eso0932a, CC BY 4.0, adapted (point sources removed, projected to the chart). Cities: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Time zones: IANA tzdb 2026e. Type: Cormorant Garamond and Jost (SIL Open Font License).