Thank you for the answer. I'm scaling everything down. Another thing that
turned up to be a problem was the 50 kilometer atmosphere of earth.
Everything turned blue. :)

David Ahlard, Sweden

Ken wrote:
>
>bardland wrote:
>
>> So; the question I'm asking is this:
>> Is there a way to increase the distance to the "far clipping plane" of the
>> camera in povray?
>
>No, it is hard coded into the program.
>
>> Of course I can scale everything down, that works as a workaround, but I'm a
>> curious guy, and it would be interesting to learn why povray works in this
>> way.
>
>Floating point accuracy. There is a set epsilon values used to avoid mathematical
>inaccuracies. Very large values, such as those used in astromonical distances,
>exceed the set epsilon value.
>
>Ken Tyler
>

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