Custom Star Map & Moon Phase Prints

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The sky over the night you met will never sit in quite that arrangement again. A custom star map keeps it: the real stars for your date, hour and place, drawn in gold, silver or ivory, with your names and the date beneath. Its companion, the custom moon phase print, keeps the moon of that night instead, lit on the side people saw from where you stood. Both come framed and ready to hang in 11 sizes, or as an unframed print for a frame you already love.

Who a Custom Star Map Is For

Most people on this page are buying for someone else. The partner marking a night only the two of them can date. The person giving a first anniversary present who wants something better than a photo frame. The parent who kept the hour of a birth on a hospital bracelet. What makes the gift land is the proof that someone looked the night up, and a personalized star map is that proof, hung where both of you will see it every day.

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Star Map or Moon Phase Print: Which Fits Your Moment

A star map shows the whole sky above one place at one hour: the stars bright enough to see with your own eyes and the constellation lines between them. It suits a night with a time attached, like a first kiss after a concert or a proposal at 9:40 pm. The stars turn slowly through the night, so the hour shapes the picture.

A moon phase print shows one moon, large, with its phase and how much of it was lit. The moon changes only a little in a day, so it suits a date you know without the hour: a wedding day, a birthday, the day a baby came home. A moon phase print also reads from across a room, where the fine detail of a star field is easier to miss.

Can't choose? Every star map look has a version with the moon added at the top, in its true phase for your date and place. One piece, both stories.

Choosing a Look and a Frame

The star map comes in three looks. Gold on black is the most romantic and glows warmly in lamplight. Silver on navy feels cooler and calmer, at home beside grey or blue bedding. Ivory sets a black sky on a soft pale ground and holds up best in a bright living room. The moon phase print is gold on deep black, toned from real maps of the lunar surface, so the seas and craters show as they do through binoculars.

A black frame suits every look, because it melts into the dark ground and lets the sky seem to float. White reads crisp on the ivory look. Natural wood adds warmth beside the gold, and dark wood suits a traditional room.

What Size Star Map Print to Choose

For a gift, 16x20" fits almost any wall and keeps every name and constellation readable from a few steps away. Above a queen bed or a sofa, go to 24x36"; above a king bed, 28x40". A shelf, desk or bedside table suits 8x10", or the 5x7" keepsake you can hand over in person. The 11 sizes run from 5x7" to 28x40" and include A3, A2 and A1 for a frame bought in Europe.

What You Type, and What You See Before You Order

On the product page you design it yourself: names or a title, the place, the date, the time if you know it, and an optional extra line such as "The night we met". The preview draws your finished piece as you type, so you see it before you add it to your cart. Leave the time blank and we draw your sky at 10 pm local time. What you see in the preview is what we print, so check the spelling of names and places.

How We Make Every Star Map

Each piece is made to order in three to six days on 200gsm matte fine-art paper with fade-resistant archival-quality inks. Framed pieces come in FSC-certified solid pine with a shatterproof plexiglass front and the hanging hardware already fitted. Every order includes a Certificate of Authenticity, free shipping available, our 30-Day Money-Back Guarantee and our Lifetime Quality Guarantee.

Custom Star Map Questions, Answered

Can I get a star map for my birthday?

Yes. Type the date and the town where you were born, and the hour if you know it, and we draw the stars that stood over that place at that moment. Any date from 1900 to 2100 works, so a grandparent's birthday or a baby born this year both draw correctly.

How do you make a personalized star map?

You give us four things: a date, a place, a time if you have one, and the words to print, such as your names and a short line. We work out where every visible star stood from a professional star catalog, draw it in the look you pick, and show it to you in the preview on the product page before you order.

Is it the real sky, or a generic star pattern?

It is the real sky. The star positions come from a professional catalog for your exact date, time and coordinates, so two different dates give two different pictures. Two people who type the same moment and place get the same sky, because it is the one that was there.

What if I don't know the exact time?

Leave it blank and we use 10 pm local time, a starry evening hour. The sky turns about 15 degrees an hour, so a guess within an hour or two still shows the same constellations, only shifted. For a moon phase print the time hardly matters, because the moon changes little in a day.

Does the moon look different south of the equator?

Yes. Seen from Sydney or Buenos Aires, the moon is turned over compared with New York or London, so a waxing moon is lit on the left instead of the right. Your moon phase print and the star map's moon are drawn for your place, lit on the side people there really saw.

Is a custom star map a good anniversary gift?

It is one of the few gifts that only fits one couple. It holds the night your story began, with your names and date, and it looks like art rather than a souvenir. For most gifts we suggest a 16x20" framed piece, above the bed or in a hallway.

More Ways to Mark the Date

If your night is a milestone, see our anniversary gifts by year, or our Valentine's Day wall art for February. For other pieces that carry your own words, browse personalized names and dates art. And if you are still working out which moon you were born under, our guide to finding your birth moon phase walks you through it.