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A star map poster of the real sky over any place, on any date: the night you met, a birth, a wedding. Every star, planet and the Moon exactly where they were.
Make a custom star map poster of the real night sky over any place, on any date: the night you met, a birth or a wedding. Every star, planet and the Moon are shown where they really were, ready to print.
The sky is computed on your device. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.
Stars come from ESA's Hipparcos catalogue, moved to your date; the Sun, the Moon and the planets are computed with Astronomy Engine, accurate to well under an arcminute.
Yes, the Moon is drawn in its real phase for that night, lit from the side where the Sun is.
The whole sky above the place: the edge is the horizon and the centre is straight up.
Yes. PDF and SVG are vector files, so stars, lines and letters stay sharp at any size.
Yes, free and without sign-up.
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North and east are positive. Search works offline from a built-in list of 34,000 places.
The whole sky above you, horizon at the edge, north up and east on the left, as when you look up. Stereographic keeps the shapes of constellations true; equidistant keeps distances from the zenith even.
Leave a line empty to have it written for you. Delete everything in the title for a poster without words.
The poster is shown at its true size for the room. To see it on your own wall, use our On the Wall tool with the saved image.
The link holds your settings, not the image: whoever opens it gets the same poster, made on their own device.
Everything happens on your device. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.
Stars: ESA Hipparcos. Star names: IAU WGSN. Constellation figures, names and boundaries: d3-celestial by Olaf Frohn (BSD). Milky Way: NASA/Goddard SVS, Gaia DR2 (ESA/Gaia/DPAC). Places: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Astronomy Engine by Don Cross (MIT). Fonts: SIL Open Font License. Credits and licences