✦ astronomically accurate · rendered live · from $19
The Sky From the Night Everything Began
Type a date and place. Watch their exact stars render live — astronomically accurate, print-ready in 60 seconds. From $19. No shipping, no waiting, no blind ordering.
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The sky over Paris, France · 14 Feb 2019
emma & james’s demo night · type yours over it
Secure checkout via PayPal · your files in 60 seconds · perfect or refunded
- Rendered in 60 seconds
- 300-DPI, print-shop ready
- Print today at Walgreens, Staples, or any corner print shop
- Perfect or refunded
How it works
A finished gift in the time it takes to wrap one.
Type the date and place
The night you met, said yes, got married, became a dad — any night, anywhere on Earth. No coordinates, no signup: just a city and a date.
Watch your sky appear
Every change re-renders the real chart live — the exact stars over that place, that night. Four styles, circle or heart, your words beneath.
Pay, download, print today
Your 300-DPI print files arrive in about 60 seconds — every size from 12×16 to 24×36, plus square and phone wallpaper. Print at any corner print shop.
The Full Gift — $29
The map is the artifact.
The love page is the moment.
A private page only they can open: your star map, your photos, a letter you wrote, and — if you want — a countdown that reveals it all at midnight. You hand over a printed QR card; they scan it and the night you chose opens in their hands.
ourfirstsky.com/for/emma-and-james
The Night We Met
scan to open
their night
Every beginning has a sky
Which night is theirs?
Real astronomy, not random dots
Your grandkids could check it against a telescope.
Up to 2,000 of the brightest stars, each in its true position — computed from the Hipparcos/HYG catalogs (the standard data professional astronomers use) and verified against the U.S. Naval Observatory to within a fraction of a star’s width. The time zone, the hemisphere, even daylight saving on your date: all resolved from the place itself, never your browser’s clock.
- ~2,000
- of the brightest stars in your sky, each in its true position
- Hipparcos / HYG
- the standard catalogs professional astronomers use
- U.S. Naval Observatory
- cross-checked against the USNO ephemeris
Perfect or refunded.
Unlimited free regenerations — wrong date, typo, different style, forever. Full refund within 30 days, no questions asked.
a typo’d date should cost you ten seconds, not a second purchase
Reviews
Honest reviews, from order #1.
OurFirstSky is brand new — so instead of renting credibility, we’re earning it in public. Every review we receive gets published here and on Trustpilot, good or bad, starting with our very first order. No purchased badges. No invented counters.
Reserved for founding customer #1
their words will appear here, unedited
Reserved for founding customer #2
their words will appear here, unedited
Reserved for founding customer #3
their words will appear here, unedited
bought one of the first maps? email hello@ourfirstsky.com — your review goes up verbatim
Questions
Asked before you had to ask.
Is this real astronomy or just pretty dots?
Real astronomy. Every chart plots up to 2,000 of the brightest stars from the Hipparcos-derived HYG catalog at their true positions for your exact date, time, and place, and our engine is verified against the U.S. Naval Observatory ephemeris. The local time zone — including daylight saving and the hemisphere — is resolved from the location itself, never from your browser.
Why do two nearby dates look almost the same?
Because the real sky works that way: the stars shift by only about one degree per night, so March 14 and March 17 genuinely look like near-twins. What changes night to night is the orientation and which stars have risen or set — and across months the difference is dramatic. Your date, time, and coordinates are printed on the poster, and the chart is computed for that exact instant.
What exactly do I get for the money?
The Star Map ($19): a 300-DPI print-resolution PDF of your design in every size from 12×16 to 24×36 inches, plus a square version and a phone wallpaper — delivered in about 60 seconds, with unlimited free regenerations. The Full Gift ($29) adds a private love page: your map, photos, a letter, an optional countdown reveal, a custom link, and a printable QR card to physically hand over.
I made a typo. Do I have to buy it again?
Never. Regenerations are free and unlimited, forever — wrong date, misspelled name, different style, changed your mind about the heart shape. Fix it and re-download at no charge.
How do I print it?
The PDF is print-shop ready at 300 DPI. Upload it to Walgreens, Staples, CVS, Shutterfly, or any corner print shop, pick your size, and you can be holding it within the hour. Matte paper looks best; the file also frames beautifully behind glass.
Is anything shipped to me?
No — and that’s the point. Everything is digital and instant: your files appear on screen the moment payment completes, on a permanent download page you can bookmark and reopen anytime — and if you leave your email, we send a backup link to that page there too. No waiting 2–3 weeks, no $30 express fees, no blind ordering.
What if I’m not happy?
Perfect or refunded: full refund within 30 days, no questions asked. You keep the kind words.