# Painted Heavens

> Name a date, time and place. We compute the true night sky of that moment from the Hipparcos catalogue and print it as fine art. The sky remembers.

Painted Heavens by Painted.App. Run by PaintedApp, LLC (https://painted.app). The full account: https://paintedheavens.com/llms-full.txt

Painted Heavens is a personalization studio in the Painted family (https://painted.app). A customer names a meaningful moment — a date, a time, a place — and we compute the real night sky over that spot at that instant and print it as museum-grade fine art. The sky remembers. We paint it back.

## What it is

- Real astronomy, shown transparently. We place every naked-eye star (to magnitude 6.5 — roughly 9,000 of them) from the Hipparcos catalogue, still the standard reference for naked-eye stars. Their catalogue coordinates are real measured positions, not artistic scatter.
- The Moon's exact phase and the positions of Mercury through Saturn come from NASA/JPL's DE440 ephemeris via Skyfield. That's why a chart of a total solar eclipse computes to a New Moon — because it was one.
- Every chart prints its coordinates and the catalogue it was computed from. The margin prints the place, the date, the local time, the coordinates, and the source catalogue — unless you turn the caption off, or choose a round format, which carries no margin. We show our work. That transparency is the authority.
- We commemorate a moment that truly happened — we never predict. No horoscopes, no fortunes, no claims about the future.
- The stars, the Moon and the planets are computed fact. Anything traditional is labelled as tradition.

## How it works

1. Name the moment. A date, a time, a place. A birth, a vow, a last goodbye — or an ordinary night that turned out to matter.
2. We compute the sky. 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.
3. We paint it back. 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.

The mechanism, step by step (each heading on the page is an anchor, so a passage can be cited directly):

- Your moment (https://paintedheavens.com/how-we-compute-the-sky#your-moment): A date, a time, and a place. We geocode the place to a latitude and longitude and resolve its timezone, then convert your local wall-clock time to a single exact instant in UTC.
- The stars (https://paintedheavens.com/how-we-compute-the-sky#the-stars): We place every naked-eye star (to magnitude 6.5 — roughly 9,000 of them) from the Hipparcos catalogue, still the standard reference for naked-eye stars. Their catalogue coordinates are real measured positions, not artistic scatter.
- The rotation (https://paintedheavens.com/how-we-compute-the-sky#the-rotation): We compute the local apparent sidereal time for your instant and longitude, then rotate each star into horizon coordinates — altitude and azimuth — for your exact spot on Earth. Stars below the horizon are dropped; the zenith sits at the centre of the disc.
- The Moon & planets (https://paintedheavens.com/how-we-compute-the-sky#moon-and-planets): The Moon's exact phase and the positions of Mercury through Saturn come from NASA/JPL's DE440 ephemeris via Skyfield. That's why a chart of a total solar eclipse computes to a New Moon — because it was one.
- The projection (https://paintedheavens.com/how-we-compute-the-sky#the-projection): The visible hemisphere is drawn with a stereographic projection onto a disc — the same projection the great celestial atlases used — so constellation figures keep their shape.
- The engraving (https://paintedheavens.com/how-we-compute-the-sky#the-engraving): The margin prints the place, the date, the local time, the coordinates, and the source catalogue — unless you turn the caption off, or choose a round format, which carries no margin. We show our work. That transparency is the authority.

## Pricing

All prices in US dollars. Every piece is computed and printed to order; the creator's "This is my moment" confirmation gates the buy button.

The live preview is free and unlimited: it is computed in the browser, needs no account, and carries the studio name as a watermark that is never printed.
Ordering: orders are not open yet. The preview works today; write to support@painted.app to hear when orders open.

- Archival Print · 18×24 — $519.00. Giclée on museum cotton rag, pigment inks that outlast us.
- Gallery Canvas · 24×32 — $599.00. Hand-stretched over solid bars. Nothing between you and the night.
- Heirloom Frame · 24×32 — $749.00. Archival print in a classic frame, behind shatterproof acrylic. Ready to hang.
- Round Acrylic · Ø30cm — $159.00. Your night cut to a perfect circle behind gallery acrylic glass. Luminous, frameless. A circle has no margin, so the coordinates stay off the disc.
- Round Metal · Ø30cm — $179.00. The disc on brushed aluminium — deep, modern, and built to last a lifetime. A circle has no margin, so the coordinates stay off the disc.
- The Night Tee — $85.00. Your exact sky, worn. Bella+Canvas cotton tee, the round chart printed over the heart.
- The Night Crewneck — $105.00. Heavyweight crewneck sweatshirt — the night you keep, on the days you wear it.
- The Night Hoodie — $125.00. Premium pullover hoodie. A whole sky, computed to the second, over your heart.
- Sterling Pendant · Ø25mm — $395.00 (coming October 2026). Your night cast in solid sterling silver, mirror-polished by hand. Every star a raised point, the Moon in its phase, an integral bail.
- Sterling Pendant · Ø32mm — $495.00 (coming October 2026). The larger disc holds more of the night: stars to a fainter magnitude, the constellations in full. Solid sterling, cast and hand-polished.

## Key pages

- Home: https://paintedheavens.com — The real night sky of your moment, computed and painted into fine art.
- How we compute the sky: https://paintedheavens.com/how-we-compute-the-sky — The astronomy behind every chart: the catalogues, the ephemeris, the projection, and where tradition ends and computation begins.
- Create your sky: https://paintedheavens.com/create — Enter a date, time and place and see the real night sky of that moment, instantly; choose a style and a format.
- About: https://paintedheavens.com/about — The studio, and the rule it keeps: we commemorate, we never predict.
- Give a sky: https://paintedheavens.com/gift — Give the night that mattered: a computed, museum-grade star map, with an anniversary reminder built in.
- Your moments: https://paintedheavens.com/moments — Saved skies, ready to re-order or gift. Sign-in arrives with the accounts release.
- Questions: https://paintedheavens.com/faq — Plain answers: is it the real sky, does it name a star, what it costs, future dates, accuracy, shipping and returns.
- Sitemap: https://paintedheavens.com/sitemap — Every page of this site, and the other Painted studios.
- Legal: https://paintedheavens.com/legal — Who runs Painted Heavens, and every policy in one place.

## Policies

- About our charts: https://paintedheavens.com/legal/about-our-charts — What in a chart is computed fact and what is tradition, clearly labelled.
- Terms: https://paintedheavens.com/legal/terms — Terms of service: what a chart is and is not (it names no star), made to order, the honest limits, governing law.
- Privacy: https://paintedheavens.com/legal/privacy — What we collect and why, who processes it, how long it is kept. No analytics, no advertising pixels, no third-party trackers.
- Refunds and returns: https://paintedheavens.com/legal/refunds — Damaged, defective or wrong: a remake or a refund within 30 days of delivery. Made-to-order pieces are not returnable for a change of mind.
- Cookies: https://paintedheavens.com/legal/cookies — One cookie, set only when you open a downloads link, and one browser-storage key for the creator.
- Contact: support@painted.app