Capture the night sky of the sky of the day they became grandparents — astronomically exact, beautifully printed
A gift for grandparents is the kind of moment you can't recreate. The sky above you on that night is just as irreplaceable — and just as forgettable, unless someone captures it. Starry Memory does, with NASA-grade astronomical precision.
Gift for grandparents moments are rare. The sky above them, even rarer — every minute produces a unique alignment of stars that won't repeat for thousands of years.
Generic gifts get added to a pile. A star map of a gift for grandparents gets framed, hung, and pointed at by visitors for years. The recipient doesn't just receive a poster — they receive proof that someone noticed the date specifically enough to capture the sky of it.
Every star position is rendered from the HYG v3.0 catalogue, the same database professional astronomers use. Planet positions come from NASA JPL ephemerides — the same data feeding mission planning. The result is verifiable against any planetarium software.
Every Starry Memory order includes access to our 3D sky explorer — a unique interactive tool that lets you navigate the exact sky of your chosen date as if you were standing under the stars that night. Drag to change the angle, zoom into a specific constellation, identify every visible planet. We're the only service combining a printed poster with an immersive digital experience — not a static PDF, but a personalised planetarium for your moment.
Every star position on your grandparents-star-map-gift poster is computed from the HYG v3.0 catalogue, which combines the three reference astronomical databases: Hipparcos (European Space Agency mission, 1989-1993), Yale Bright Star Catalogue, and Gliese Catalogue. Planetary positions come from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory DE405 ephemerides — the same data used by mission control centres to plan interplanetary trajectories. You can verify the result with Stellarium, SkySafari, Cartes du Ciel or JPL Horizons. Precision: down to the arcsecond (1/3600th of a degree).
On the custom star map market, you mainly find three categories. All-physical services delivering a printed poster between $25 and $50, with a 3-10 day delay and expensive logistics passed on to the price. Marketplaces (Etsy) where each seller has their own quality, their own delay, with no guarantee of astronomical precision. Premium digital services charging $15-30 for a file, justifying it by careful design. Starry Memory positions itself elsewhere: €3.99 for the HD digital file, delivered in 30 seconds by email, with the same astronomical precision as premium services and access to the 3D explorer included — the only service on the market to offer it. For the grandparents-star-map-gift use case, this positioning means: no compromise on quality, price divided by 5 to 10.
A regular poster lives in a bedroom for a few months before ending up in a cupboard. A Starry Memory poster lives in the story. Every time a visitor asks 'what's that?', the owner tells the story behind the chosen sky — the date, the place, why that night matters. The poster becomes the trigger for a thousand conversations, over ten, twenty, thirty years. That's what sets it apart from a mere decorative object: it carries a personal narrative that never wears thin. Our service at €3.99 makes this possibility accessible to everyone — without compromising on astronomical precision or the quality of the file delivered.
Yes — verify with Stellarium or any planetarium software, you'll find the same star positions, the same planets, the same moon phase.
Yes — instant digital download worldwide, including UK, US, Canada, Australia and Ireland. Premium prints ship to 14 countries with tracked delivery in 3–7 working days.
The high-resolution star map (4960×7016 px, 300 DPI) + a personalised illustrated poem generated from the brightest stars visible that night.
Digital file: 30 seconds after payment. Premium print: 3–7 working days with tracked shipping.
After your purchase, you receive a personal link giving access to an interactive web planetarium. You can rotate the celestial sphere, zoom into any constellation, identify every visible star with its name and magnitude. No installation required — works on smartphone, tablet or computer.
Yes — every order includes one free modification within 24 hours. Beyond that, we charge €1.99 per change (still making the service 5 to 10 times cheaper than competitors). For typos in the name or message, modification is free for life.