Pet Star Map, Gotcha Day or Pet Memorial Gift, Night Sky the Day We Brought You Home, Dog Cat Loss Sympathy Keepsake, Printable

The real night sky over the place and the date your pet came home, or the night you said goodbye. Their name under the stars, a paw print on the divider, and a line of your own.

Tell us the details. We calculate where every star, the Moon and the planets were at that exact minute and draw them as a circular sky map above a pine treeline, with your words, the place, the date and the coordinates underneath. The Moon is drawn in its true phase and the print names it, along with any planets that were above the horizon.

WHAT YOU GET
- Two styles of the same map: Northwoods (deep navy sky, made for framing) and Ink (white paper, black stars, easy to print at home).
- PDF files sized for 8x10, 11x14, 16x20, 12x18, A4 and A3. PDFs are vector, so they print sharp at any size. 16x20 scales to 24x30 and 12x18 scales to 24x36.
- 300 dpi PNG files at 8x10, 11x14 and A4 for photo labs and online print services.
- A phone wallpaper (1290 x 2796) laid out to leave room for the clock.
- A short printing guide with paper, frame and print shop tips.

HOW TO ORDER
1. Add your details in the personalization box: your pet's name, the city, the date, and a short line if you want one. The title reads The day you came home unless you give us your own, such as Until we meet again.
2. Within about two minutes your finished map is ready at our pickup page: both styles, every size, and the phone wallpaper. The instant download here on Etsy is a one-page guide with the pickup link; enter your Etsy order number and the name on your order. If we need one detail first, the page asks you there.
3. Print at home, at any photo lab, or with an online print service, then frame it.

Check the names, date and place before you order. If something is wrong on the map, message us and we will fix it. Every map includes one free revision.

DETAILS
- Any date from 1900 to 2050, anywhere on Earth. Times are local to the place you give, daylight saving time included.
- No time? We use 10:00 PM, when the sky is dark in most of the world.
- The title reads The day you came home unless you give us your own. Titles up to about 24 characters fit on one line; longer titles wrap to two.
- The extra line under the names holds up to about 40 characters.
- Stars brighter than magnitude 6 (everything the eye can see on a dark night), constellation lines, the Milky Way, the Moon, and Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

HOW IT WAS MADE
Designed in-house. The maps are drawn by software we wrote with AI assistance, from real astronomical data: star positions from the Hipparcos catalog (XHIP compilation), constellation figures from d3-celestial, planet and Moon positions from NASA JPL DE421, and places from GeoNames. No stock or generated images.

NOTES
- This is a digital file. Nothing ships, no frame included.
- Colors can look slightly different on paper than on screen. For home printing, the Ink style uses the least ink.
- Previews on this page are real maps made with the same software, for the dates and places printed on them.