Andrea Ryan 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.
> Brendan Ryan


About a year ago we were discussing the same with other astronomical
things, and the conclusin was that it was harder to get them scaled
correctly, correct lens data and cheats with eye and perception than it
was to cheat and make the moon look apperantly correct. Sorry to say
this, but use the artistic licence(TM) to get the best results. 


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