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From: Sander
Date: 21 Jan 2000 08:17:40
Message: <38885c74@news.povray.org>
Is this better?

--
Regards,
Sander


Chris Jeppesen <chr### [at] digiquillcom> schreef in berichtnieuws
3887caab@news.povray.org...
> A view of the lunar eclipse happening as I type (darn clouds!) from an
> unusual prespective... close to the sun, through a telephoto lens.
Remember
> when you look at it that the moon is much farther away than the earth,
about
> 60 earth radii.
>
> A small demonstration of my work in progress, the PovSolarSystem. This
will
> be a working model of the whole solar system, It will have the ability to
> add arbitrary bodies like spacecraft.
>
> Most astronomy programs have a hard time with eclipses. I get them for
free,
> by virtue of using a raytracer. Long live POV!
>
>
>


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