It might be a good time to bring up a new wish list addition for having the
camera able to shift field of view according to distance.  Sound okay?

Bob

"Spider" <spi### [at] bahnhofse> wrote in message
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> Andrea Ryan wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
>
> About a year ago we were discussing the same with other astronomical
> things, and the conclusin was that it was harder to get them scaled
> correctly, correct lens data and cheats with eye and perception than it
> was to cheat and make the moon look apperantly correct. Sorry to say
> this, but use the artistic licence(TM) to get the best results.
>
>
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