Every star here was measured, not invented — position, distance, temperature and colour, from the European Space Agency’s Gaia and Hipparcos missions. Pick one, name it, and fly to it in a map of the real sky.
A name recorded here is recognised within this registry. It is not an astronomical designation, and no observatory will call your star by it. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you something that does not exist.
What we can give you is real: the star’s measured position and distance, its temperature and colour, how long its light travelled to reach you, and a permanent entry in a ledger you can check yourself.
Every star below is real and measured. Narrow the list, then pick one — you can look at it in the map afterwards.
Measured against Gaia DR3. Every figure requires a distance known to better than 20% — a certificate that says “412 parsecs, probably” is not a gift.
| Tier | Stars | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Visible to the naked eye | 6,471 | you can walk outside and point at it |
| Binoculars | 175,017 | |
| Small telescope | 3,025,253 | |
| Good telescope | 33,954,664 | |
| Everything with a printable distance | 192,208,838 | the whole inventory |
Gaia holds 1.8 billion sources, but only 192 million have a distance good enough to put on a certificate. For the rest, nobody on Earth can tell you how far away they are — so we do not sell them.
These are physical properties, and they stack. Every count is exact and can be checked against the catalogue.
What it will never carry: a photograph of your star. At these distances stars are points of light — the Sun seen from the nearest star would be a fifty-thousandth of a pixel. Anyone showing you a glowing orb is showing you an illustration.
What is honest, and better: the patch of sky around it photographed across decades by different surveys. That is a real record of that exact spot over time.
A star can be held by more than one person. A family, a team, a class or a group of friends can share one — and a share of a star you can walk outside and point at is a better thing to hold than all of one nobody has ever looked at.