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> High!
>
> Once more with my long-cherished Solar System project... originally I 
> equalled 1 POV unit = 1 km - which pretty soon turned out to be 
> unfeasible, as the Sun is several times farther even from Mercury than 
> PoV-Ray's epsilon value would allow it to be rendered correctly, let alone 
> the other celestial bodies in the Solar System.
>
> So I introduced a scale value, based on the aphelion (furthest point of 
> orbit from the Sun) of trans-Kuiper Belt object Sedna, and adjusted it 
> dynamically to the distance between camera and the Sun (or any other 
> body):
>

I hope future versions of Pov-Ray will fix this problem. A lot of Povers 
love doing astronomical stuff =)


-- 
-Nekar Xenos-

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