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30 Jul 2024 04:19:30 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Nice Real sky_sphere Starfield from Earth  
From: Christian Froeschlin
Date: 28 Sep 2009 12:18:47
Message: <4ac0e1e7$1@news.povray.org>
> If any of you celestial mechanics would like to point
> out how to calculate dw_startrot properly (as is done in
> sunpos.inc) I'd appreciate it.

I'm not a celestial mechanic but gave it a shot ;) The original
image seems to use the galactic coordinate system so I tried to
go from there. The source file is posted in p.t.s-f:

http://news.povray.org/povray.text.scene-files/thread/%3C4ac0e0cb%241%40news.povray.org%3E/

It's quite a bit longer than your version, though ...


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