Okay, this is probably the final render and I renamed it a planetoid since 
there isn't official word on this being a planet. Added a bit of lens flare 
to the tiny Sun, however post-processed. Also post-processed the stars to be 
somewhat more exagerrated. I wasn't having much luck with doing that in POV 
since it's all random granite patterns. The brightnesses of everything is 
probably unrealistic, I just don't know.

I was checking on what might be seen from this vantage point, looking back 
toward the Sun, and just by chance there are a couple bright stars that 
could be thought of as being Arcturus and Alpha Centauri (near top left, and 
left near middle). Well, if you care to pretend that anyway. I'm not sure 
about any planets being visible at all so I didn't attempt to add such dim 
points of light since they'd likely mix into the background.

Some info about the "new planet" discovery, which this is supposed to 
represent: I found out that the orbit is highly inclined to the other planet 
orbits, about 44 degrees. And it is very eccentric, going almost as close as 
Neptune's orbit during its path. So it is much like Pluto and many other 
objects out that far. This is something I had to consider when making the 
final changes. I was going to add an ecliptic dust cloud, like that of the 
artists rendition seen at NASA's web site but I can't imagine it being 
visible at all unless looking from edge-on. The surface is a guess about it 
being extremely cold, yet an icey rock mix. Apparently it might have 
Pluto-like ingredients but there's obviously very little known of it yet.

Thanks for the comments thus far. Hope you will like this revised render. 
Simple stats: AA was 0.1, method 2, depth 4. Under one hour on PIV 2GHz.

P.S.

I also found out that all this currently talked of 'tenth planet' stuff was 
caused when someone got into a web site, about object 2003 UB313, and leaked 
out the story and the news media picked up on it. Don't know about you but 
I'm not going to call it the tenth planet until it's official.
;)
Bob

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