A living lunar instrument

The moon outside your window, quietly on your wall.

Lune is a sculpted lunar lithophane framed in warm walnut that tracks the real sky in real time — every crater, every phase, every night of the 29.5-day cycle.

Synced to tonight’s sky · Waxing Gibbous · 78% illuminated · Day 11.4
New
Waxing Crescent
First Quarter
Waxing Gibbous
Full Moon
Waning Gibbous
Last Quarter
Waning Crescent
Same phase. Same night. Filmed in a real bedroom — Lune framed in warm walnut on the wall, synced to the crescent outside the window.
In the room

Not a lamp. A window.

Hang it above the sofa or set it beside a candle. Unlit areas rest in natural matte off-white lunar relief framed in warm walnut, while the illuminated phase glows with true spherical geometry.

Lune in warm walnut bezel mounted on a living room wall above a wooden console
Features

Quietly capable.

Every control lives in a clean local dashboard at moon.local — open it from any phone or laptop on your Wi-Fi whenever you feel like adjusting the sky.

Accuracy

3D spherical terminator

True orthographic projection and Lambertian cosine falloff curve the shadow edge from crescent to gibbous exactly like the real moon in space.

Surface

936,000-facet lithophane

Precision-molded from NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter elevation data. Tycho, Copernicus, and Mare Tranquillitatis emerge in physical depth when backlit.

Atmosphere

8 lunar color palettes

Classic warm moonlight by default — or tap a swatch for Amber Gold, Pure White, Cool Blue, Soft Rose, Ice Blue, Sunset, or Blood Moon Eclipse.

Sleep

Night schedule

Set quiet hours and Lune automatically dims to a gentle bedroom glow at bedtime, then wakes with you in the morning.

Placement

360° software rotation

Route the power cord cleanly downwards and rotate the terminator angle in software (0°–360°) to match your hemisphere and window view.

Memory

Frozen-date mode

Lock the display to one meaningful night — an anniversary, a birth, or a historic lunar landing — and keep that exact moon forever.

Lune showing a waning crescent in emerald greenEmerald · waning crescent
Lune showing a waning crescent in harvest goldHarvest Amber · waning crescent
Lune showing a waning crescent in deep eclipse redBlood Eclipse · waning crescent
Click any palette below to preview its live glow on Lune
Moonlight
Harvest Amber
Pure White
Pink Moon
Emerald
Blue Moon
Blood Eclipse
Optical Architecture

An instrument, built like one.

Behind the sculpted lunar disc sit 241 individually addressable LEDs arranged in 9 concentric rings (1, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 60) — each cell isolated inside a custom optical baffle grid so light never bleeds across the terminator.

The outer bezel is finished in a warm walnut wood tone with a clean, tab-free 193.5 mm silhouette designed to hang flush on a wall or rest on a desk stand.

241Addressable LEDs (9 rings)
936kNASA LRO micro-facets
0Cloud accounts required
5-layer exploded mechanical CAD diagram of Lune showing walnut bezel, white PETG lithophane, cellular optical baffle, 241-LED 9-ring PCB, and flush rear enclosure
5-Layer Assembly

Engineered from the inside out.

  • 01Warm Walnut Bezel (193.5 mm) — Smooth architectural wood-tone frame with zero protruding tabs.
  • 02White PETG Lunar Lithophane (190 mm) — Variable-thickness topographic shell sculpted from NASA LRO data.
  • 03Cellular Optical Baffle Grid — Isolates all 241 light chambers for a smooth, natural twilight ramp.
  • 04241-LED 9-Ring Planar Array — Driven by an onboard ESP32 computing real-time spherical ephemeris.
  • 05Flush Keyhole Rear Enclosure — Integrated wall keyhole, desk-stand support, and bottom USB-C channel.
The gift

Freeze a night that mattered.

Every Lune can hold a date. Pick the night you met, the night a child was born, or the night Apollo 11 touched down on Mare Tranquillitatis — and see the exact moon that hung in the sky that evening.

June 14, 2019 · Waxing Gibbous · 90% illuminated
Specifications

The fine print, in plain light.

Dimensions
193.5 mm (7.6 in) outer walnut bezel · 190 mm lunar face · 35 mm deep
Lithophane Surface
Matte white PETG relief sculpted with 936,000 micro-facets from NASA LRO elevation data
Light Engine
241 individually addressable RGB LEDs across 9 concentric rings (1, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 60) with cellular optical baffle
Optical Math
3D spherical orthographic projection with Lambertian cosine shading & smooth twilight ramp
Controller
ESP32 dual-core processor · NTP astronomical sync + manual date/phase override
Local Web UI
Built-in responsive web app at http://moon.local — 8 color presets, 360° rotation align, night schedule
Power & Mounting
USB-C 5 V power · Flush rear keyhole wall mount (tab-free) + tabletop stand
Privacy
Zero cloud accounts, zero subscriptions, zero app store lock-in — runs 100% on your local network
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