A real, catalogued star. Real coordinates. A beautiful certificate with a QR code that renders a live 3D view of your star on any browser, anywhere, always. This is far beyond what any certificate service has ever done. This is not a piece of paper. This is a permanent place in the universe.
Every star named through TheStarDB comes with an official Star Certificate, a beautifully printed document issued under the TheStarDB Star Registry, a division of Preservation Network LLC.
The certificate carries your star's catalog ID, its real measured coordinates (Right Ascension and Declination), spectral class, distance from Earth, and the name and dedication you choose. The certificate also features a custom QR code, which links directly to a live 3D render of your star, powered by STEN. The render works on any device, in any browser, with no account required and no expiration.
This is not a novelty. Every data point on the certificate is real, pulled directly from real life coordinates for real stars, fully verified at the time of issuance. The information used to render and find your star is the same coordinates and spectral data used by professional astronomers. The star page created at the time of purchase remains permanently accessible at its own URL on TheStarDB.
The star naming industry has a secret. Most services sell certificates backed by private catalogs of a few thousand stars, many with coordinates that cannot be verified by any telescope on Earth. The right ascension, the declination, the spectral class on your certificate: in many cases, it was generated to fill a field. No professional astronomer will find your star there. No instrument has measured it.
TheStarDB is built on something real. Our entire database is drawn from verified scientific catalogs produced by major space agencies, covering hundreds of millions of objects across the Milky Way. From that, we maintain millions of fully unnamed, fully catalogued stars. Each one carries a verified catalog designation, precise right ascension and declination, parallax-derived distance, confirmed spectral classification, temperature, luminosity, and magnitude. The exact same data professional astronomers publish papers with.
When you name a star from TheStarDB, your certificate holds real life coordinates. A real designation. You will name a real star that a telescope can find at those numbers, because those are numbers measured by real telescopes. The QR code on your certificate opens up to a live 3D render of your star, showing its actual position among neighboring stars, its real spectral color, and its true distance from Earth. No other competitor has built this. No other competitor can.
No other star naming service in the world offers this. Not one.
Every package includes a real catalog star, a permanent page with a live STEN render, and a holographic Star Certificate with QR code.