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Is it possible to know what the night sky looked like on a specific date from a given time/place
Oh yes, very easy. Several apps on your PC or even phone to do that. I recommend PC apps as they are easier to use. I've only used stellarium on the PC so i recommend that one. It's free to download. You can go to any location on earth and pretty much any time in history and see the whole night sky for any specific location. More on reddit.com
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Find pictures of the stars/galaxy on specific dates
Maybe something like this? This page lets you generate a custom star map for any location in the world at any date/time: https://astrography.com/pages/create Galaxies and nebulae change very slowly, on a time scale of thousands to millions of years. Aside from a few specific objects like supernova remnants, two photos taken a couple of years apart will look essentially identical. More on reddit.com
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NASA made a website that shows what space looked like on your birthday ๐ŸŒŒ
Yea .. cool .. though .. can't select my year cause we'd just gotten to the moon when I was born. (Get off my lawn!) More on reddit.com
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YSK: NASA has been uploading daily Astronomy pictures since 1995
My dad loves these and we used to look at them every day. He still does. More on reddit.com
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive - NASA
Mars 2025 January 14: North Star: Polaris and Surrounding Dust 2025 January 13: Comet ATLAS Before Sunrise 2025 January 12: Mimas: Small Moon with a Big Crater 2025 January 11: An Evening Sky Full of Planets 2025 January 10: Young Stars, Dark Nebulae 2025 January 09: Peculiar Galaxies of Arp ...
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NASA - SKYCAL - Sky Events Calendar
December 21, 2020 - SKYCAL (Sky Events Calendar) will help you keep track of the sky by calculating the local date and time of all these celestial happenings. It displays them on a convenient calendar that you can print and hang on the wall. You can generate a calendar for a single month or for an entire year.
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Night Sky Tonight: Visible Planets in Nasa
Choose tonight or another date and see which planets are shining in the sky above you or anywhere else.
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NASA Night Sky Network (@nightskynetwork)
NASA Night Sky Network. 223,729 likes ยท 29 talking about this. Bringing communities astronomy activities and science! Managed by Astronomical Society of the Pacific
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive 2015 - NASA
Mars 2025 January 14: North Star: Polaris and Surrounding Dust 2025 January 13: Comet ATLAS Before Sunrise 2025 January 12: Mimas: Small Moon with a Big Crater 2025 January 11: An Evening Sky Full of Planets 2025 January 10: Young Stars, Dark Nebulae 2025 January 09: Peculiar Galaxies of Arp ...
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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APOD: 2026 April 8 โ€“ Earthset - NASA
5 days ago - Explanation: Do you see the horse's head? What you are seeing is not the famous Horsehead nebula toward Orion, but rather a fainter nebula that only takes on a familiar form with deeper imaging. The main part of the here-imaged molecular cloud complex is reflection nebula IC 4592.
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August 31, 2020 -

I'm getting married soon and am thinking of some special gifts for my S/O for the occasion.

I know within a few minutes the date and time of our first kiss, and thought it would be cool to share some kind of cosmic representation of that moment.

Is it possible to know what the sky would have looked like at that time from that location? Not necessarily a photograph, but like a star map or something with the phae/location of the moon and places? Is there any kind of site or tool that could extrapolate it? Or some kind of expert I could commission to calculate it?

I've looked around and can't seem to find anything obvious, but it's very possible I'm not using the right words or terms. My understanding of astronomy is very superficial.

Thanks very much for any potential help.

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Night Sky Network
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Night Sky Planner | Night Sky Network
July 5, 2024 - Choose your state, then city to see when the International Space Station can be seen crossing the sky. Bookmark this page as your one-stop planning resource for astronomy events. Note: By clicking any of these links, you will be leaving the NASA domain.
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Night Sky Network Celebrates Artemis II - NASA Science
1 day ago - On April 6, 2026, the crew of Artemis II reached a milestone, traveling farther than any humans in recorded history, as they orbited the far side of the Moon, roughly 4,000 miles above the lunar surface.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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APOD: 2026 April 9 โ€“ - NASA
2 weeks ago - Tarantula Nebula lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is one of the satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, 160,000 light-years away. That is more than 1,000 times closer than any of the binary black hole mergers detected so far. We'll probably never detect a merger so close to home! ... Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) NASA Official: Amber Straughn Specific rights apply.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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APOD 2025 October - NASA
Click on a picture and discover the cosmos! ... This calendar is generated by a robot written by Momoko. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) NASA Technical Rep.: Amber Straughn. Specific rights apply. A service of: ASD at NASA/ GSFC &: Michigan Tech.
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Secret NYC
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You Can See The Exact Space Photo NASA Took On Your Birthday Here
February 2, 2024 - To celebrate the 27,000-pound babyโ€™s birthday, NASA uploaded 366 photos of various events observed by Hubble. These photos, that date back through the last 30 years, can be timed precisely to your birthday!
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Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) | Facebook
Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD). 556,119 likes ยท 8,638 talking about this. NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day's (APOD) official Facebook page, administered by APOD editors and volunteers.
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Sea and Sky
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Astronomy Calendar of Celestial Events 2025 - Sea and Sky
The eclipse will be visible throughout all of Asia and Australia and the central and eastern parts of Europe and Africa. (NASA Map and Eclipse Information) September 21 - New Moon. The Moon will located on the same side of the Earth as the Sun and will not be visible in the night sky.
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NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts are flying back from the moon today. Watch its progress live here and check out our ... Tariq Malik, Josh Dinner, Daisy Dobrijevic, Brett Tingley, Monisha Ravisetti, Mike Wall last updated 9 April 26 ยท Wednesday, April 8, 2026: See our latest news and updates on ...
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A Complete Guide to the Solar System and the Night Sky | TheSkyLive
Popular objects during the last 7 days based on the number of visualizations. Current positions of the major bodies of the Solar System and the brightest comets. ... How the Sun and the Moon look like today. Credit: NASA, SDO, and the HMI Science Team Information about the Sun Sun position in sky map