Al Ain moments
Born at Tawam Hospital, which Al Ain families have trusted for decades. A wedding at home with the old date palms of the oasis nearby, an evening drive up Jebel Hafeet after the contract was signed. A villa among the farms on the edge of the Garden City, with space for three generations. Al Ain keeps its traditions, and its dates, closer than the coast.
- Tawam Hospital · our son · 6.40 am
- Jebel Hafeet · the evening we were engaged
For someone from Al Ain now working in Abu Dhabi or Dubai: the sky above the family home in the Garden City.

Giving it in Al Ain

In Al Ain many milestones are still celebrated at home, with three generations in one majlis. A gift for that house should be quiet, personal and lasting; a framed artwork of the galaxy above the family's own day is all three.
The moments people here frame: a son or daughter born at Tawam, a wedding evening in the family home, an engagement agreed by both families before the drive up Jebel Hafeet. The line under the galaxy can carry the names, the date and a few words of your own.
The sky over Al Ain is darker than the coast's, away from the light of the big cities. The galaxy in your artwork was above the town either way; you simply could not see it from the street.
Overhead in Al Ain
Inland at 24.2° north, the Garden City has 3,474 catalogued galaxies inside half a degree of its zenith. Among the larger ones we offer, these five pass over Al Ain and appear on no other page:
- UGC 1551 · 128 million light years · 0.13° off · around 10 pm in late November
- NGC 160 · 250 million light years · 0.25° off · around 10 pm in mid-March
- UGC 4054 · 102 million light years · 0.31° off · around 10 pm in late February
- NGC 6484 · 149 million light years · 0.28° off · around 10 pm in late July
- UGC 2079 · 268 million light years · 0.31° off · around 10 pm in early December
Al Ain's darker sky shows more stars to the eye than the coast, but none of these galaxies is visible without a telescope; the photograph is what lets you see yours.
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