Hiya Blendfriend!
This scene should be a good starting point for your moon shot. The scene is ready to use with the already mapped ground plane but can easily be rotated and remapped - 360 degrees! Futher instructions for remapping are included inside the text editor.
The original panorama was captured with a '70mm Hasselblad' with 60mm lens during Apollo 17.
Here is a preview with added post effects:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVm9_VyYVE
External sources used in this file:
Moon HiRes Panorama under Public Domain: PanEmptyNoSTitches.jpg
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollopanoramas/pans/?pan=JSC2007e045388
HiRes StarMap under Public Domain: Starmap_8k.jpg
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003500/a003572/index.html
For my preview video I used a more artistic background with added nebula. You can grab them here under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US License:
Awesome work
The description says blender internal. But this is for cycles.
Amazing! Love it, specially the blender flag!