The real night sky, computed and painted
Somewhere above you, on the night that changed everything, the stars stood in an arrangement they will never hold again. Tell us when and where. We compute exactly what was overhead — and paint it into fine art you can hang.
Hipparcos catalogue · JPL ephemeris · every coordinate engraved on the print
We do not invent the sky. We recover it. The night of your moment already happened, exactly once, exactly one way — and it is still, precisely, computable.
A studio of the Painted family
Choose the night worth keeping. We commemorate it — we never predict.
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A date, a time, a place. A birth, a vow, a last goodbye — or an ordinary night that turned out to matter.
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From the Hipparcos catalogue and a JPL ephemeris we resolve the true position of every star, the Moon's exact phase, and the visible planets — for that instant, over that spot on Earth.
III
The real sky, drawn in your chosen style and printed as museum-grade fine art. Coordinates and source engraved in the margin, because the truth is the point.
Actual output · computed, not decorated
Houston, Texas
20 July 1969 · First Quarter · 4,482 stars
The sky over Houston the hour Apollo 11 touched the Sea of Tranquillity — a First-Quarter Moon, and 4,482 stars keeping watch.
Carbondale, Illinois
21 August 2017 · New Moon · 4,405 stars
Carbondale, Illinois, under the Great American Eclipse. The Moon computes to exactly New — because it was passing in front of the Sun.
Kyoto, Japan
21 June 2019 · Waning Gibbous · 4,229 stars
Midsummer night over Kyoto, the shortest darkness of the year, a Waning Gibbous Moon low in the east.
On your wall
Printed on museum cotton rag with pigment inks, matted, and framed in hand-finished hardwood. The coordinates and the catalogue are engraved in the margin, so anyone who stands before it knows they are looking at a true night — recovered, not imagined.
Each frame above holds a real chart our engine computed — the same output your moment produces.
From an instant download to an heirloom frame — the same true sky, at the weight you want to give it.
Digital Download
Print-resolution file, computed to the second. Yours to keep.
$49.00
Archival Print · 18×24
Giclée on museum cotton rag, pigment inks that outlast us.
$119.00
Gallery Canvas · 24×32
Hand-stretched over solid bars. Nothing between you and the night.
$199.00
Heirloom Frame · 24×32
Archival print, museum glass, hand-finished hardwood. An heirloom.
$349.00
