Rotation Movie of Moon

Rotation movie of Moon created in Celestia
Albedo/color map by Jens Meyer/Steve Albers
Topographic Normal Map by JAXA/Kaguya/mhoward

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Celestia
• Moon

[volcanopele]

I am going to try to make an add-on for Celestia that can be used with version 1.6. I just need to disentangle this added texture from the rest of the add-on stuff I have for the moon.

For this movie, I used a texture applied to a sphere. This is a normal map, which tells the renderer about local slopes for each pixel, so it can display the correct shading. This is not a shape model, so while the topographic shading should be accurate, the limb of the moon would still appear smooth.

[3DPlanets]

Celestia FTW.

[DonPMitchell]

Nice! And good to see the Kaguya altimetry data finally here. Our first really good lunar altimetry map. Can't wait for LRO data to join in the fun.

[AleksanderBozic2007]

Great, great, great!!!

[TheCorrigan]

Amazing. Great work.

[antibufala]

Awesome. Are there any instructions on how to get the JAXA data and then feed it to Celestia? Is this just a texture applied to a sphere, or is it also altimetrically correct? Thanks for sharing. Paolo, Lugano, Switzerland.