✦ Our Story ✦
The Sky Has Always Been
a Place for Names
Since ancient times, humans have looked up and told stories — naming stars after heroes, animals, gods, and the people they love. NamedLight continues that tradition, tying every registration to a real, catalogued stellar object.
A real star.
Your name on it.
NamedLight lets you assign a name to a real, catalogued star and receive a beautifully designed certificate documenting it. Every star in our registry is drawn from the HYG Astronomical Database — a scientifically compiled catalog with verified coordinates, distances, and spectral data.
When you name a star through us, you receive a PDF certificate by email within minutes and your own registry page at a unique URL that displays your star's full astronomical data.
The Astronomy Behind It
When your certificate lists coordinates, those are the actual numbers an astronomer would use to find your star with a telescope.
Our star catalog is built on the HYG Database — a widely used resource combining data from the Hipparcos Space Astrometry Mission, the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, and the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars.
When you choose a constellation, you're choosing a real region of the sky. Stars assigned through our registry come from 30 curated constellations — familiar, recognizable groupings like Orion, Lyra, Andromeda, and Cassiopeia.
A Gift to Remember
Personal and meaningful.
For any occasion.
Every star gets its own registry page, with a link you can visit and share anytime. The certificate is something you can display and share. The coordinates are real enough that someone could, with a decent telescope, actually find the star.
Name a star for someone who has passed, a light in their honor.
✦Welcome a new life with a star that will shine long after we're gone.
✦A star for the two of you, and a place in the night sky you can share.
✦For the person who has everything, give them their own corner of the sky.
ⓘ A Note on Official Recognition
We believe in being straightforward: star naming through NamedLight is a novelty and commemorative service. The names recorded in our registry are not recognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), NASA, or any other official astronomical body.
The IAU is the only body with authority to officially name stars and celestial objects. The few hundred stars with official IAU-recognized proper names, such as Sirius, Vega, and Betelgeuse, were assigned through that process and are not in our assignable pool.
What we offer is a personal registry: a well-documented record that a real star at specific coordinates carries a name that means something to you. That's worth something, even if it isn't official.
Give a gift they'll
never forget.
A real star named for someone you love, with a beautiful certificate and a registry page they can share anytime.
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