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> High!
>
> Rarius wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> ...as an amateur astronomer (owning a Newton 4.5-incher, on parallactic 
> mounting) I'm quite aware of this... but I can't rule out to generate also 
> telescopic views with PoVSolar in the future!

In all the years I've been an astronomer (25+), I have never heard it called 
a parallactic mount. I had to Google the term. I have always heard it 
described as an Equatorial mount. I have a 10in Orion Optics newtonian 
reflector myself on a large wooden fork mount.

BTW I had done some of this kind of POV work before. I have a topographic 
model of Mars if you'd like it.

>> 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.
>
> Good idea... is it in the public domain like Hipparcos?

Yes the BSC is public domain too.

Rarius

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