moon beyond 10K AD does not show same face towards eart.h. Longer term viewing is even more erratic and towards 100 K even size changes and ir shows far side too.

Bug #1620075 reported by frans mallia
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #499971: Rotation of Moon inexact. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

Select moon and centre. remove atmosphere and terrestrial features. Align telescope on equatorial. Run fast forward till 100,000 years. After a few thousand years, librations begin to get larger until far side of moon start showing. Later on even size of moon starts varying erratically and much more than expected from current elliptical orbit.

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gzotti (georg-zotti) wrote :

Not really new. One of my earlier findings. And yes, we hope to solve it pretty soon.

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