Australia is a big place, and the people we love are often spread across it, or across the world. Personalised Star Maps (formerly our Double Star Map) put the night sky from 2-5 different dates and places onto one print, so the sky over Perth on the night you met can hang beside the sky over Melbourne on your wedding day, or beside the stars above the town overseas where your parents grew up.<\/p>
Each panel is drawn from astronomical data for the exact time and location you enter. Southern Hemisphere skies look the way they really did, with the Southern Cross, the Pointers and the Milky Way exactly where they stood. If one of your moments happened in the Northern Hemisphere, that panel shows Orion or the Big Dipper instead. Side by side, the panels show how far your story has travelled.<\/p>
The night you met and the night you got engaged. The birth skies of each of your children, one panel each. The home town you left and the city you now call home. A long-distance relationship, with one sky for each of you. Grandparents often receive the birth nights of all their grandchildren on a single print, which beats five separate frames on a crowded wall.<\/p>
Start with a design: dark navy, black, white or your own colours, with or without constellation lines and the Milky Way. Then add your dates, times and places and write a short caption under each sky. The preview updates as you type, so you can see the finished print before you order. Choose a poster, a framed poster, a canvas or a digital download for printing locally, and pick the size that suits the wall.<\/p>
For anniversaries, Christmas, Mother’s Day or a housewarming, Personalised Star Maps give something no shop shelf can: the actual sky over the moments that matter to the person receiving it. Prints are produced close to you for quicker delivery, and the digital file arrives by email if you need a last-minute present.<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"