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🌓 Moon Phases from Earth: Terminator, Earthshine, Libration and Orbit Nodes

A Kepler-ellipse Moon with a tilted, regressing orbit lights up a Cycles-baked lunar globe under a real Sun direction; the inset shows the Moon seen from Earth with libration, supermoon size change, earthshine and hemisphere orientation, checked by counting lit pixels against the closed-form phase.

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A Kepler-ellipse Moon with a tilted, regressing orbit lights up a Cycles-baked lunar globe under a real Sun direction; the inset shows the Moon seen from Earth with libration, supermoon size change, earthshine and hemisphere orientation, checked by counting lit pixels against the closed-form phase.

Moon PhasesOrbital MechanicsLibrationThree.jsBlender

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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