A star map Christmas gift that arrives the minute you buy it
The hard Christmas presents are for the people who already have everything. What they do not have is a drawing of one particular night — the one their child was born, the one they met, the first Christmas in the house — with the stars exactly as they stood.
Christmas Eve itself is a good choice: the winter sky in the northern hemisphere carries Orion, the Pleiades and Sirius, the brightest star of all, which makes one of the richest charts of the year. In the southern hemisphere the same night shows the Southern Cross low in the south.
It is a PDF, so the last-order date is the 24th: buy it in the afternoon, print it at a copy shop or at home, and frame it before dinner.
Two ways to give it
Printable PDF $4.99
- A3 star chart, vector PDF
- Your place, moment and line of text
- Delivered by email in a minute
Gift edition $14.99
- Everything in the PDF
- A2 print file at 300 dpi (420 × 594 mm), ready for any print shop
- A personal dedication printed under the title
Printing it at home? There is a second paper: the same sky as ink on white. A full-bleed night A3 bands on a home printer and drinks a cartridge; the ink one does not. Same price, pick either on the next page.
Preview free, one-off payment by card, no account. The place, the moment and the line of text are yours to change on the next page; the example shown here is a real sky over Edinburgh on 24 December 2015, 23:30 local time.
The line of text
The line under the chart is the card: “Christmas Eve 2015 — the first one in this house”. Sixty characters, printed small.
Questions people ask
What is the last day to order for Christmas?
There is none: the PDF arrives the moment the payment goes through. Only the printing takes time, and an A3 print at a copy shop takes minutes.
Can I give it as a gift without printing it?
Yes — send the PDF by email with a note, and they print it at the size they want. The file is vector, so it stays sharp from A4 to poster size.
I need several for the family — do they cost more?
Each chart is $4.99. Different places or dates are different charts; the same place and date can be printed as many times as you like.
Other occasions
- Birthday star map — star map of the night you were born
- Anniversary star map — sky on the night it started, as an anniversary print
- Wedding star map — wedding star map of the night you said yes
- New baby star map — birth star map for the nursery wall
- Remembrance star map — remembrance star map for a date that mattered
- Engagement star map — sky over the proposal, as an engagement star map
- Graduation star map — graduation star map of the night it was done
- Valentine’s Day star map — Valentine’s Day star map that is actually about you two
- Mother's Day star map gift — Mother's Day star map of the night she became a mother
- Father's Day star map gift — Father's Day star map that shows the sky of your first night together
- The night we met star map — night we met star map: the sky over the place it started
- Last-minute star map gift — last-minute personal gift you can give tonight
Or just look: the real sky tonight over 500 cities →
