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> High!
>
> Cousin Ricky wrote:
>
>> What are you using for the starry background?
>
>
> This:
>

> // (Atlas for Skywatchers) (C) 1997 Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co., 
> Stuttgart, Germany

> yaz### [at] gmxde

<BIG SNIP>

> Still not perfect, as back then, I didn't know of the environment variable 
> image_width...
>
> Perhaps later on, I'll program a version using the Hipparcos Catalogue 
> which contains about 150,000 stars...

I wouldn't bother unless you want to produce telescopic views.  The human 
eye can only see stars down to about Mag 5.5-6.0... This means the brightest 
1500 stars or so. You also ought to know that the coverage of the Hipparcos 
Catalogue is not balanced. Some areas show fainter stars than others.

I converted the Bright Star Catalogue (BSC) into a POV include a while back. 
I'll post it in the povray.binaries-scene-files for anyone to look at.

Rarius

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