GrimDude wrote:
> 
> I hate to say it, but that is only going to make things worse. :)

	Correct, it does make things worse. The astronomical scale of the solar
system is too great to render and look realistic. 

	If I remember correctly a standard camera lens, about 50mm for 35mm
film which should be roughly the 4/3 aspect, has about a 30 degree
viewing angle. From Earth both the sun and the moon have a 1/2 degree
angular diameter. for a 640 wide image that less than 11 pixels. 

http://giwersworld.org/artiii/elevat23.jpg is a to-scale rendering and
that blob is the moon. The blob looks a bit better as rendered rather
than at the jpeg quality used. 

	On the recent images I have posted I have cut the earth-moon and
earth-sun distances by about ten with other scales equal. On that scale
a lunar eclipse lasts two days but the moon is on the recognizable side. 

	I'll be posting the result of my way of making a sun in binaries in a
few minutes. 

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