Le 2010-06-22 19:16, SharkD a écrit :
> On 6/20/2010 12:19 AM, Reactor wrote:
>> Do you mean a Jovian stationary orbit?
>
> Yes. And I'd like the sun and planet positions/sizes/orientations to be
> proportionately correct with respect to each other. (They don't need to
> be at the same scale as the station though. I'm willing to fudge that
> bit to keep POV-Ray from choking on the huge scale differences.)
>

 From the location of Jupiter, all other planets are only seen as the 
stars. The inner planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, as very faint, 
maybe not visible stars. Mercury will definitely NOT be visible at all.
Saturn is the brightest "star" in the sky.
The Sun is about 8 times smaler than seen from the Earth and 64 times 
fainter. Jupiter been about 8 times farther from the Sun than the Earth.
Uranus and Neptune are visible as just somewhat faint stars.

ONLY Jupiter is seen as more than a point of light, and from your low 
orbit, will cover a prety large area of the sky. It's luminosity should 
tend to drown out almost everything else. Most stars and planets won't 
be visible at all!

So, you can effectively skip over all other planets and all stars exept, 
maybe, the 100 brightest ones, keeping only: The Sun, Jupiter and it's 
bibest moons.


Alain

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