"pavium" <jrc### [at] tpgcomau> wrote in message 
news:web.44175355669cd8c78398f4b40@news.povray.org...
> Nekar,
>
> My recent post to povray.general provides a method of calculating the
> position of the Sun, Earth and Moon so that Solar (and Lunar) eclipses can
> be modelled.
>
> The method could be extended to include all the planets.
>
> The idea of my scene file 'eclipse.pov' (downloadable from
> http://www.pavium.info/Eclipse/) is to calculate the positions of the Sun,
> Earth and Moon at a particular date and time, and then render a picture
> showing the shadow of the Moon on the Earth, or vice versa.
>
> You may not need that much accuracy.
>

Pavium,

I had already downloaded it at the time of posting my request. When I opened 
the file and saw the diagram with
 (Sun)----(Moon)----(Sun0)----(Moon0)----(Earth)
I realised I am going to have to disect this file. Then when I saw you have 
the sun and moon rotating around the earth, and knowing this is only to find 
eclipses, I figured I would have to do some "reverse engineering" as well.

This could work but I need to know which  Sun and Moon are correct?

Thanks.


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-Nekar Xenos-
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