Could someone with immediate knowledge of this feature help me out and tell
me the equivilent statement in the current POV version?

See http://www.dlugosz.com/Artwork/POV/lamp1.JPG for the picture: this is
your basic glowing effect.

TIA,
--John

light_source {
    <0,0,0>
    color White
    looks_like {
        sphere { 0, 1
            pigment { color rgbt <1, 1, 1, 1> }
            halo {
                emitting
                spherical_mapping
                linear
                color_map {
                    [ 0.0 color rgbt <1, 1, 0, .999999> ]
                    [ 0.5 color rgbt <1, 1, 0, 0.5> ]
                    [ 0.8 color rgbt <1, 1, 1, 0> ]
                    [ 1.0 color rgbt <1, 1, 1, 0> ]
                    }
                samples 10
                }
            hollow
            scale <3,1.5,1.5>
            } //end sphere
        } // end looks_like
    translate y*9.7
    }

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