Thanks very much for all the help! I really wasn't expecting much; first
time here.
What I ended up doing was coding a simple C++ program to output to a .bat
file a series of calls to pvengine and povplan, and ran povray from the
command line.
It looks alright; I think I'm eventually going to write my own solar system
modeler. Really a good bit of fun.
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