MichaelJF <fri### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:

> As ever, there is still room for improvement, but for the moment I'm
> content with my efforts to model an aurora borealis. The image was some
> kind of a study of concept. Now I try to improve the sky. At the moment
> I use a catalog of the 1628 brightest stars from a VizieR database. I
> project the entries to my sky-sphere. This sample represents the stars
> visible in a severly light polluted city like my living place Darmstadt,
> Germany, very well. The Milky Way is invisible here completely. Now I
> found a database of 120.00 stars published by the European Space Agency
> (Hipparcos-Catalogue). So the next experiment is to try to understand
> this data and to project them at my sky-sphere.
>
> Best regards
> Michael

Cousin Ricky has you covered:

https://news.povray.org/povray.object-collection/thread/%3Cweb.5a7fae1be3b4c4165cafe28e0@news.povray.org%3E/

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