POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Moon : Re: Moon Server Time
10 Aug 2024 09:13:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Moon  
From: Bill DeWitt
Date: 10 Jan 2000 00:46:56
Message: <38797250@news.povray.org>
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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