A Star Named
Find the real star that was above them when they passed
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A Star Named is an astronomical memorial service that reconstructs the sky at the recorded time and location of a person’s or pet’s passing and identifies the star closest to the zenith.
PH · launched Oct 19, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views
Niche: digital art and memorial archives · 49 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -57% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- GitHub
- Social Impact
- Health
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More like this: all 49 launches in digital art and memorial archives →
Could you build this?
Yes Computing local sidereal time and the zenith star from a public bright-star catalog is a well-documented calculation that astronomy libraries like astropy already implement.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 94 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #46 of 95 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 171 days after the earliest competitor.
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- MemoUS · ph · 2026-10-31 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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