The astronomy rubric was originally intended more for my amateur astronomical activities and results. Digging out the old pictures, writing nice texts about them, reviewing the events, something like that.
At some point I had created the first renderings of the moon with Povray and didn't really know where to place them. What the heck, a few astro-fakes certainly fit in astronomy, no one will notice.
Now it threatens to come exactly the opposite way than planned: I don't like to write about amateur-astronomy at the moment, but more and more rendered results are piling up.
It is likely to get worse in the near future. It's not for nothing that I have prepared a star database for use with Povray, because you can do some great things with it.
On top of that, I'm far from done with Moon and Mars, I have a lot more ideas than time. As if that wasn't enough, NASA has finally paid its Amazon bill after the Trump shutdown, the big download sites are doing it again and I have even more fodder on the table.
That's why I'm inaugurating my new Astro-3D rubric, much earlier than expected. We'll see if I like the name in the long run. All astronomically rendered images and videos move into it, even if it looks a bit empty in the astronomy rubric.
In order to inaugurate the new one properly, I have collected animations created in 2018 that have not really come into their own so far.
See: Astro-3D - Starfield-Animations from 2018.
Salute,
Martin
