Wolfie6020 kindly filmed a time lapse video of the Moon using his equatorial mount telescope. We see that the Moon does not "rotate" when filming with a single axis of rotation. The apparent rotation that we see as the Moon crosses the sky is simply due to the observer's changing viewing angle (perspective).

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