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Wasn't it Andrea Ryan who 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.
There's a sort of optical illusion that makes the Moon seem to be much
larger than it is. If you take a photo that includes the moon with, say,
a 50mm lens, the picture looks like this:-
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A POVray image that uses the default camera angle will look similar. To
get a decent looking photo of the Moon you need to use quite a long
telephoto lens, so in POVray, that would mean setting your camera to
something like this.
camera {location < 0, 0, -250000>look_at <0,0,0> angle 2}
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Mike Williams + #
Gentleman of Leisure
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