Do you have every city?

The picker covers major cities, and you can enter any latitude and longitude directly — so anywhere, including the middle of an ocean.

What about the southern hemisphere?

Fully supported, and worth doing: a southern sky is unrecognisable to a northern eye, which is precisely the point.

Can I print the place name in another language?

Yes. Whatever you type is what prints, in any script the embedded fonts cover.

Can I make one for several trips?

Each card is one sky. For several trips, make several — they hang well as a set.

Nightward / Travel star map

Travel star map, the sky over somewhere far

You brought back photographs of the place. This is the part of the trip that was directly overhead and that nobody photographs.

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

Why a foreign sky looks foreign

A sky over Reykjavik and a sky over Nairobi on the same night are genuinely different pictures, different constellations, different orientation, some stars that never rise at all from where you live. That is the whole appeal of this design: it is proof you were somewhere else, in a form a photograph cannot take.

Set as a postcard, on purpose

The Travel design borrows the visual language of a vintage travel postcard: a bordered plate, the place name set in the frame, muted paper tones. It reads as a souvenir rather than an astronomy chart, which is what makes it hang well in a hallway among other things you brought back.

Good for the trip you have not taken yet

The calculation runs forward as well as back. A honeymoon destination or a planned move can be printed in advance and given as the announcement.

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

Do you have every city?: The picker covers major cities, and you can enter any latitude and longitude directly, so anywhere, including the middle of an ocean.
What about the southern hemisphere?: Fully supported, and worth doing: a southern sky is unrecognisable to a northern eye, which is precisely the point.
Can I print the place name in another language?: Yes. Whatever you type is what prints, in any script the embedded fonts cover.
Can I make one for several trips?: Each card is one sky. For several trips, make several, they hang well as a set.

Start your travel star map, from $5

The travel 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 →