[sorry! 1st emailed instead of reply here. Out of practice using 
newsgroups.]

I had made a few attempts to show the solar system or parts of it in POV-Ray
over the years. As I read others saying here, scale modeling and getting
the view right can be trouble... for me anyhow.

When I first read your post last week I was going to look for what I might
have done before but decided to start fresh again. Idea this time being to
create an "orrery" of various scales fit together into one scene file. Not
sure I succeeded but I'm posting it anyway at povray.binaries.scene-files,
less the image maps since you could easily replace them with textures or
images found online. Low resolutions okay and faster to render, I down-sized
mine to 720X360 from hi-res ones I already had.
(example: earth-map.jpg, jupiter-map.jpg)

While going to post this I saw David Buck's fictional scene at p.b.s-f. I
realize now my try at it might seem confusing at first, too. heh-heh-heh.
:^)  Since the topic of atmosphere during eclipses was brought up as I
returned to read here while refining the orrery I tried adding that without
success. Poorly done so ignoring that part might be best-- unless someone
wants to fix it.

I can't be certain I got all the elements of the orbits right, I fumbled
with the sizes and angles until it looked like the animations kept the
correct orbital inclinations; and all along writing the file out in such a
way that made sense to me yet not sure it will to everyone else. No doubt
better methods or implementations exist than what I chose.

Again, it's being posted at povray.binaries.scene-files, under the name
"solar system orrery ver1", since the text line-wrap would be a disaster if
posted here.

Bob

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