piclist@mmendes.com wrote:

> Cool!  I'm familiar with libration, but I did not know that you could
> exploit to create a stereo picture of the moon.  I'll have to try that
> sometime.

You mean  like this:
http://home.comcast.net/~jlballou/LunarStereo/index.html
or from google's cache
http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:bw4GbFLkGK4J:home.comcast.net/~jlballou/LunarStereo/index.html&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=ca

Or these?
 
http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyApparatus/Astronomy/Moon_Stereo/Moon_Stereo.html

The not so gory math
http://www.stereoscopy.com/library/waack-ch-7.html

Somewhere on the web is a GIF movie made up of shots taken at
full moon over many many months, as it librated. Fascinating to watch.
I  don't think this is it, (I can't get it to play, but maybe others
can).

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/moon_phases

This is a  RENDERING to give you some idea of what libration looks like.
http://www.nightskyobserver.com/LunarPhaseCD/LibrationMovies.htm
http://www.nightskyobserver.com/LunarPhaseCD/LibrationMovie2.mpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libration


Robert

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