A dog, a cat, or any beloved companion — let us find the real star that stood above them when they said goodbye. Free preview first; decide after you see it.
Some will say “it was just a pet.” Anyone who has loved one knows better — they had four paws, a favorite place to sleep, they waited for you at the door; and when they were gone, the house felt different.
A memorial does not need to be grand. It can simply be somewhere real to go: a star that genuinely exists, one you can look up and see.
Many people put it as “they crossed the rainbow bridge.” You do not have to believe in a bridge to miss them — but if you want a direction you can still look toward, this star is one.
You enter the time and place they said goodbye; we compute the zenith of that instant — the point directly overhead — and from the HYG catalog (107,838 real stars merged from the Hipparcos, Gliese and Yale surveys) return the real, still-unnamed star nearest that point. The same inputs always give the same star, and the coordinates speak astronomy’s common language — verify them in any third-party sky-chart app.
The name is yours to give as a memorial: we always say plainly that the IAU recognizes no commercial naming. The star itself is genuinely there.
The registry model is pick-and-record: you choose a star from a list, or a system assigns one in order — and between that star and your pet there is nothing beyond the purchase itself.
We do the opposite: we do not pick, we compute. The date, time and place they passed fix the zenith of that instant, and the real star nearest that point is theirs — not chosen by us, not chosen by you. The same moment and place always compute to the same star.
The difference is not the price. It is the method: one buys a name; the other computes a real moment into a real star. And the method is checkable — the coordinates are printed on your certificate and survive any sky-chart app.
A star record: traceable IDs (HIP / Gaia), J2000 coordinates, distance and spectral type · a 3D return to the sky of that final night · a downloadable certificate · and a memorial space that is private by default — sharing is always your choice.
One tier — Digital Star ($19.99, delivered digitally) — no hidden upsells.
No, and we never say otherwise. There is no official star registry, and the IAU — the only body that officially names celestial objects — does not recognize commercial naming. What is real: the star itself, from the HYG catalog, with coordinates anyone can check in a sky-chart app. You are naming a memorial, not buying a scientific designation.
Yes. Enter the day, and the calculation uses the local sunset of that date as a stated approximation — the certificate says so. If you find the time later on a vet invoice or in an old message, recompute and the star updates to the exact one.
It depends on the star’s magnitude, which your certificate states. The star is chosen for being nearest the zenith at that moment, not for being brightest, so some are faint and need binoculars or a dark sky. Bright or faint, it sits at exactly those coordinates.
No — it is a digital A4 PDF you print and frame yourself. Pet certificates carry a rainbow-bridge arch, drawn for pets only, and many owners frame it next to a photo. Nothing is shipped, which is part of how the price stays a single tier of $19.99.
It is one of the few gifts that treats the loss as real, which is why owners tend to keep it. You need the pet’s name; the date and place help, and the time is optional.
You can — but know what you are buying: in catalog registries the star is picked from a list; the star is real, but the tie to your animal is not there. If what you want is “the star that was overhead at the moment they left,” that can only be computed, never chosen — picking cannot give you a recomputable answer; computing can.
We can't tell you where they are now.
But we can show you the star that was above them when they said goodbye.