Hi Bob,
I did know what to expect from the subject line, as I live aprox 40 miles away from
the Space & Rocket Center, in Tennessee. Its one of my favorite places to visit.
Your render looks remarkably accurate. I hope to get a good telescope one of these
days. :)

Jay Raney

Bob Hughes wrote:

> I was taking some digital camera pictures through my telescope recently and
> thought that it would be a great thing to try and duplicate in POV-Ray.  The air
> turbulence and haze and general telescopic appearance seemed perfect to try and
> mimic.
> I had taken both night-time (never got one that looked bright enough) and
> day-time photos with a 640x480 resolution camera through the eyepiece (yes, the
> eyepiece) of a 4" SCT scope of 1200 focal length and 18mm lens, making for a 67
> power magnification.
> Anyway, these two renders are surprisingly similar to what I could see with my
> eyes but not quite what turned out on the camera.  So you can see for yourselves
> the attachments are both real and raytraced, you'll just have to believe me when
> I say POV-Ray did much closer to the real thing than the photos did.
> BTW, the photos were reduced in size by half to get rid of the ugly pixelization
> and I post-processed the renders to add some ugliness-- I meant photographic--
> look to them  :-)
>
> Bob
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