Very, very good! I'm going after the larger size now: I'll use it as
wallpaper.

I like what you've done with paintings and the wallpaper.

The order of the zodiac signs is right for an orrery, assuming that
revolutions are clockwise. It should be that as the Earth progresses through
the year, an observer on the earth would see the Sun move forward through
the zodiac. Right now, the Sun in the image is in Cancer (opposite Earth in
Capricorn), and will move into Leo as Earth moves into Aquarius-- yeah,
that's right. The zodiac order is reversed in horoscopes since the daily
rotation of the Earth is being charted there.

Is the support wire under Saturn dipping into the base? Have you angled the
pictures out from the wall slightly?


--
Will Woodhull
Thornhenge, SW Oregon, USA
willl.at.thornhenge.net


"Bill Hails" <bil### [at] europeyahoo-inccom> wrote in message
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> Thanks for all of your helpful suggestions,
> most of which I've tried to take on board.
>
> Hopefully it's better, not sure it's finished :-)
>
> there's a bigger rendition, 1280x960, at
> http://thyme.homelinux.net/Orrery.jpg
>
> The oil painting is by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1766,
> "A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery"
>
> --
> I would've gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those pesky kids!

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