A Mother's Day star map of the night she became a mother
Mothers keep the dates. The night you were born is the one she remembers to the hour, which makes it the easiest star chart to get exactly right: ask a sibling or look at the birth certificate for the time and the hospital town.
If it is her own story you want to honour, the chart works just as well for the night she met your father, her wedding, or the town she grew up in on a summer evening. The date chooses the constellations; the hour turns the sky.
Mother's Day falls on different Sundays around the world — March in the UK and Ireland, May in the US, Canada and Australia. The PDF arrives the moment you pay, so the calendar never catches you out.
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 London on 10 May 1992, 03:10 local time.
The line of text
The line under the chart is the card: “London, 3:10 am — the night you made me yours”. Sixty characters, printed small.
Questions people ask
I do not know the exact time I was born — does it matter?
A few minutes change nothing visible; a few hours rotate the sky. If only the day is known, choose a time in the evening, when a real sky would have been looked at, and say so in the line under the chart.
Can I order it the day before Mother's Day?
Yes, even the morning itself: the PDF is delivered by email the moment the payment goes through, and an A3 print at a copy shop takes minutes.
Can one chart show a sky for the whole family?
A chart is one place and one instant. For several children, one chart per birth makes a set; each is $4.99.
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
- 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 →
