A last-minute personal gift you can give tonight
Most personal gifts need a week: engraving, printing, a courier. This one needs a place, a date and roughly the hour. The chart is computed from the HYG star catalogue for that exact horizon and minute, and the PDF arrives as soon as the payment goes through.
It does not look last-minute because it is not generic: nobody else has the sky over that street on that night, and the line under the chart says in your words why it matters.
Print it at home on A4, at a copy shop on A3 in a few minutes, or simply send the file with a note — it is vector, so it stays sharp at any size.
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 Sydney on 16 March 2019, 21:30 local time.
The line of text
The line under the chart does the explaining: “Rome, 2 July 2016 — the night it all began”. Sixty characters, printed small.
Questions people ask
How fast do I get it?
Immediately: the download opens on the thank-you page and a copy goes to your email as soon as the payment clears.
I do not know the exact time — is that a problem?
No. The hour sets how the sky is rotated; an approximate evening hour gives a chart that is true to that night. Try two hours in the free preview and pick the one you like.
Can I print it tonight?
Yes. Any home printer handles A4; copy shops print A3 while you wait. Frames in standard A3 and A4 sizes fit it without cutting.
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
- Christmas star map gift — star map Christmas gift that arrives the minute you buy it
- 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
Or just look: the real sky tonight over 500 cities →
