Can I use it for a pet?

Yes, and people do. The design says nothing about who it is for.

Does it have to say anything?

No. A name and a date is enough, and you can leave the message line empty.

Can I add a short quote?

Yes — the message line takes a line or two. Keep it short; it is set small on purpose.

Is the sky accurate for dates a long time ago?

Yes. The calculation runs backwards for centuries without losing accuracy at this scale.

Nightward / Memorial star map

Memorial star map, their sky, kept

Grief has very few objects to attach itself to. This is one: a real, checkable, unsentimental record of what the sky was doing on a night that will not come again.

Design yours, from $5 Free to preview. Nothing to install.

Deliberately quiet

The Memorial design does not use gold, does not use bright colour and does not use an ornament anywhere. Deep ground, a single disc, and text set small. Everything in it is an attempt not to overstate, which, in our experience, is what people actually want from a remembrance print and rarely find.

Which date to choose

Most people choose the date of the death, and that is what the design assumes. Many choose a birthday instead, or a wedding date, or an ordinary evening that happened to matter. There is no wrong answer, and the card does not label the date as anything, it simply records it.

It prints for a service

The file is high enough resolution to enlarge for an order of service, a memorial table or a framed print for the family. One purchase, printed as many times as you need.

How it works

Pick the moment. Date, time and place, anywhere on Earth.
Make it yours. Names, a message, and the design you want.
See it before you pay. The finished card renders as you type.
Download and print. A 3000×4200 file, a clean 10×14″ print.

Questions people ask

Can I use it for a pet?: Yes, and people do. The design says nothing about who it is for.
Does it have to say anything?: No. A name and a date is enough, and you can leave the message line empty.
Can I add a short quote?: Yes, the message line takes a line or two. Keep it short; it is set small on purpose.
Is the sky accurate for dates a long time ago?: Yes. The calculation runs backwards for centuries without losing accuracy at this scale.

Start your memorial star map, from $5

The memorial designs

Every one is the real design, drawn live, not a photograph of one. Open any of them and it becomes yours: your date, your place, your words.

By city

Latitude decides which half of the sky you can ever see, so the same date over two cities is genuinely two different maps.

Every city we draw →