Heh, thanks for the correction guys. It is indeed a scaling issue.
The illumination map is just an image file without reference points and in my excitment to upload my first map, I forgot to actually have a look at it and correct the scaling! Apologies for the shoddy work.
Here is a "corrected" version. Not perfect, but atleast the bottom of craters is blue now!

I agree that is too much data around and definetely too litle time! If only I could get a bigger computer too!

best regards
Emmanouil

Hello,

this is the first time I post on this forum. I would like to take the opportunity to thank you all for the
inspiration you provided with your beautiful images and excellent work.
After perusing the forums for a while I decided to start producing some planetary maps for some research project I was involved with and because it is really cool!

I used the LOLA grided release and ISIS3 to read the LOLA files and produce .cub files.
I used GRASS GIS to read these files (reads directly cub files).
I then made an overlay from the illumination map that LROC team made for the Lunar South Pole.
LROC SP Illumination Map .

Finally, I used the nviz function of GRASS to tranform the LOLA data in 3D and overlay the illumination map as a "red to blue" colormap.

So in these pictures, red means more illumination and blue means less illumination.

The scale can be seen on the first map. I attach two of the images.

hope you like it

best regards
Emmanouil