If I didn't know it was your post, I would have at first thought it was a photo! Very realistic.

#povray #3D #pov-ray #lunar #moon #craters #moonscape

Info on the LUNEX beta program can be found here.
www.phpsciencelabs.com/for-blue-sky

I wouldn't mind a few opinions from anyone who tries it.
I don't personally know any coders who do anything but HTML and Java Script.

More:

#povray #3D #pov-ray #lunar #moon #craters #moonscape

For users of POV-Ray looking for code to render photo-realistic lunar images, I created a script for that.
It's called LUNEX v2 and runs under POV-Ray v3.7

www.phpsciencelabs.com/for-blue-sky...
and
www.phpsciencelabs.com/for-blue-sky...

Hi, Martin:
Looks good so far.
From the shading, it looks like you are using a bump map rather than a height field. That's how my images looked when I used a bump map. Making the shadow edges look natural can be a challenge.
LUNEX took me a year or so to work this out.

#Pov-Ray #povray

Hi:
I noticed that you use POV-Ray to render the moon.
I like your work.
I also made a POV-Ray script called LUNEX to render the moon from various perspectives and also made some 3D anaglyphs too.

www.phpsciencelabs.com/for-blue-sky
www.phpsciencelabs.com/lunar-hemisp...

Jay
:)

When requesting data using a body ID, like for 617 Patroclus (A906 UL),attach a semicolon to the number if referring to an asteroid.

617; = Patroclus

617 = 17th moon of Saturn

juno; = Asteroid Juno

etc.

The semicolon identifies it as a small body (like an asteroid).

It is interesting that in northern winter, the coldest time of the year, that the Earth is 3 million miles closer to the sun than in the middle of summer.

Here's NASA-based tool to compute the rise/transit/set times of any object. It may be useful.

phpsciencelabs.com/for-blue-sky...

I create free public domain PHP software and source code for astronomy students and advanced hobbyists. Current focus is on PHP programming for the NASA/JPL Horizons API.

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