On 09/11/2012 5:32 PM, MichaelJF wrote:
> I have to agree with Thomas. May be the optimum is somewhere between both
> versions. I missed the haze too. Now the picture has a little bit to much
> brightness IMO, but we can see where the bridge ends :). At the missing half of
> the earth there seems to be a kind of structure - only some points. Is it
> intended?
>


Yes Michael it is intended. They should be more visible in the latest 
image. They are city lights on the dark side of the Earth. I used two 
Earth maps and differenced the day and night spheres. On the night map I 
used PNG image with an alpha channel to get the transparancy.


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Regards
     Stephen

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