Occultation of Saturn

Claudio Grondi wrote:

I have googled for 3D models of solar system helping me to adjust my
intuitive expectations to the reality, but the best I came up with yet
is the magnification feature in Stellarium. This helps much, but it does
not show enough Moon surface details (yes, I was able to watch the
occultation of Saturn in Stellarium).
Is it possible to have a much more detailed Moon surface in Stellarium
and if yes how can this be achieved?

Claudio Grondi
After checking the postings to another (German) astronomy group I found
today a hint to another free astronomy software program called Celestia:
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

Celestia helps to get better intuitive feeling for the Solar System and
yes, it shows that changing the position when near the Earth has an
impact on the Moon position in relation to other solar system objects
and the stars. The navigation in Celestia is somehow contrary to my
intuitive expectation and I have still a hard time to get it to show me
what I would like to see, so I have started to dream about getting the
features of both Stellarium and Celestia into one software package ...

By the way: I had today an excellent view on the total Lunar Eclipse and
was watching the Moon through binoculars from out of a window and the
Stellarium simulation on the PC in parallel both showing the same
picture. Stellarium is an incredible nice piece of software !!! Thanks
to all who contributed to it and made it available for free.

Claudio Grondi