Wow sounds complicated...

Bill DeWitt wrote:

> Everytime I make them the right size and distance I get the same problem. I
> think it is because even a large monitor is not as large as the sky and so
> you have to divide the apparent size of the moon by the same factor that
> your screen divides the sky.
>
> "Andrea Ryan" <ary### [at] global2000net> wrote in message
> news:38794C56.4F454654@global2000.net...
> > Hello,
> > I am trying to make a picture of the Earth and the Moon.  One POV unit
> > equals one mile.  The Moon is something like 250000 miles from the
> > origin and it is nothing but a tiny, gray speck.  When the camera is
> > near the Moon, the Earth looks small too.  Is there a limit on how far
> > apart objects can be?  I might have one POV unit equal to 100 or 1000
> > miles.
> > Brendan Ryan
> >

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