Thanks in part to Chris J.'s post of his lunar eclipse because that motivated me
to go ahead with rendering one up myself, here's the URL to my interpretation:
 http://members.aol.com/persistenceofv/lunrclps.mpg  ~740KB for a faster d/l
than if I had posted here.  It's 400x300 res. 98 frames.  Used two negative
spotlights behind the Earth to get the central and edge darkness, a regular
spotlight for the color and arealight for the sun.
Not physically accurate, just a quick fake.  It got affected by some noise, from
the arealight jitter I think, in the image mapping so the Earth sparkles quite a
bit.  I was trying a 'turbulence 0.1*clock' of the cloud map but it didn't seem
to change it.  At least the clouds are rotated independently anyway.
In case anyone's thinking of mentioning the brightness of Earth I was going for
a very distant telescopic view, like Chris J. had said too, so it would
presumably be very bright compared to Earth orbit photos but I think I might
change it to look more like local proximity (and get rid of that ugly noise!).

Bob

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