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During the pandemic, I bought a 6-inch telescope and have hardly done anything with it so far. Two of the few videos, recorded with a Raspberry Pi HQ-Cam, are halfway presentable. Maybe that will put me in the mood for more.

My Moon animations wanted to be improved further, so I added two missing things: The libration - the wobble of the Moon - and the earthshine - the sunlight reflected from Earth. The former is already working quite well, the latter could be further strengthened.

After creating two HD movies of the dark side last month, it was now the turn of maps, global views and images of craters. It has some really beautiful areas on the far side of the moon, which I wasn't aware of before.

Small comparison between an analog image of the Lunar crater Plato from the 90s, and a recent rendering of the same area. The difference is quite ... fiercely.

It is not really dark at all. On the contrary, due to countless craters and the lack of mare it is even brighter than the side faced to Earth. Two rerendered videos - one in 2D and the other in 3D - should confirm this.

Two more videos of the Moon are ready. Both show the crater Copernicus in different magnifications.

In the last few days I've been playing around with Povray again, realistic pictures and videos of the moon have come out. Global views, enlargements around Plato crater, and of course stereo versions.