LUNEX v2 For POV-Ray
POV-Ray Program by Jay Tanner - 2025
LUNEX For POV-Ray - A Virtual Lunar Telescope and Explorer

  • LUNEX was designed to render photo-realistic images of the moon from virtually any perspective and phase illumination.

  • LUNEX v2 is NOT compatible with any previous versions.

    Mare Moscoviense Region on Far Side of Moon.

  • USAGE:
    To render the lunar images, the program script requires POV-Ray v3.7, the free, open-source 3D ray-tracing package, to be installed.  LUNEX runs on your desktop and requires no Internet connections.

    No significant programming expertise is needed to simply use LUNEX unless you wish to modify the public domain source code.  It is not necessary to write code, but only change some settings in the SCENE DEFINITION PANEL block.

    For more information on POV-Ray, and to obtain the free, open-source POV-Ray 3D ray-tracing software to run LUNEX, visit:  https://www.povray.org