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Old 14-January-2003, 03:28 PM
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You can do the starfield from the Moon with paper and pencil, especially the stars around the famous Apollo-16 UV image of Earth.

For stars near Earth, get an ephemerus with lunar positions in RA/DEC, for the times of interest, and just 'invert' the line-of-sight on the celestial sphere. Look on a star chart.

For the sky in general, it takes a few more fudge factors but you could sketch out a transformation of an Earth-based starfield at the same 'solar time' -- how long 'post sunrise' in terms of degrees (15 deg per hour on Earth, a half a degree per hour on the moon), with a corrective 23 deg tilt for Earth's axis.
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