Blog --- Moon-Renderings

10.03.2025 - 1:00 pm

Fullmoon

In December 2024, I stumbled across high-resolution maps of our Moon rather by chance on a NASA site.

Huge maps of the surface, rectangular in nature, twice as wide as tall, 16,000 pixels or more in width and hundreds of megabytes, some even a few gigabytes in weight.

Simply said, you can place these rectangular images around a sphere with a program, place a light source of your choice somewhere and create an image of the scene.

The following figures are therefore not photographs, they were generated with the help of the open-source 3D program Povray, using two NASA maps and so-called Spherical Heightfields.

Below is a selection of the first results, so to speak, quick shots, because it was fun and I want to boast a littlebit.

For more of it and more context see the page Astronomy - Moon-Renderings - First Results.

These will not have been the last pictures and videos.

It's worth stopping by again, because my high-performance render farm is working 24/7 right now.
I've already worn out one fan :(

Ciao
Martin

Waxing Moon - Day 10

Left above the center of the image crater Plato, to the bottom left Mare Imbrium.

Video of the earth-facing side of the Moon, one full rotation.

As already mentioned, more pictures can be found on the page Astronomy - Moon-Renderings - First Results.

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