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> Pretty dark in Afghanistan ;-)... what resolution has your surface 
> heightfield, and what vertical exaggeration did you apply to it?
> A nitpick: I think the sky is way too starry compared to what an astronaut 
> from a spaceship would see - the illuminated hemisphere of the Earth would 
> simply overshine most stars!

Hi!

Exaggeration: default value, surface heightfield: 1000x500 (have another one 
which was too big to parse for POV-Ray due memory of only 1.25 GB: 
21600x10800).

Difficult to have the colors of an image having the same natural illuminance 
like the original Earth. The amount of stars should still be vastly 
increased, but I experimented already with a "black half-spherical fog" 
behind/around the dayside of Earth with lets the stars gradually be seen 
again. But this black fog (descent in its kind) I did, so far, only with a 
graphic program, not yet with POV-Ray.

Greetings,

Sven

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