The camera is in ecliptic orbit of the Earth here. If you look real close
you might see the Moon move through the camera view. The moon is actually
orbiting too, but at the proper rate of one lunar month (and not all of that
is modelled). This is  a conceptual example of an animation I first saw on
Compuserve years ago. The original artist's name is lost to me (sorry). This
128-frame animation took just over 10 minutes to render.
  The Earth appears to wobble, because it is tilted toward the Sun (northern
hemisphere's summer) and the camera is coplanar with the orbital path about
the Sun.

Grim

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The stars don't look right.
Maybe try a star map as sky_sphere.
You can find one on the web.
try a search for "planetary maps"... that should do.
at high-res it might blur down,
but i've had good results at 320x240 with this technique.

(or am i just seeing aliasing/mpegging ??)

-e

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It looks like the Earth is rolling instead of rotating.. very strange effect.

Josh

GrimDude wrote:

>  The camera is in ecliptic orbit of the Earth here. If you look real close
> you might see the Moon move through the camera view. The moon is actually
> orbiting too, but at the proper rate of one lunar month (and not all of that
> is modelled). This is  a conceptual example of an animation I first saw on
> Compuserve years ago. The original artist's name is lost to me (sorry). This
> 128-frame animation took just over 10 minutes to render.
>   The Earth appears to wobble, because it is tilted toward the Sun (northern
> hemisphere's summer) and the camera is coplanar with the orbital path about
> the Sun.
>
> Grim
>
>                    Name: Ecliptic.mpg
>    Ecliptic.mpg    Type: WMPLAYER File (video/mpg)
>                Encoding: x-uuencode

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