A short and unfinished video that was made during the search for a Povray rocket launch site. I have no idea if the macro collection behind it will ever be finished, but I still wanted to present the first test flight in advance as a teaser.

Till now I have deposited pictures and videos of planets rendered with Povray in the rubric astronomy, but it is slowly getting crowded there. So I moved them to a new one and added old star field animations.

I created a lite version of the current HYG star catalogue with 120,000 entries. It contains fewer columns, reduced accuracies and is half the size of the original. The result can be downloaded as a SQL import and in the form of Povray arrays.

I have written a modest tutorial on how to build realistic-looking planets with Povray using two images and 60 lines of code. If high-resolution image material is used, the results look better than photographs taken by amateur astronomers with the most expensive equipment in the world.

Finally I have a decent Povray package ready for release. It contains a macro that uses high-resolution images to create an almost photorealistic image of the Milky Way. Only a few lines of code, but it really makes a difference.

Two new pages for my somewhat empty Povray section, which deal with the topics of tutorials and freely accessible script-collections. Both listings are still small, but if I find new websites, I will add them. Let's see where that ends.

I have already published some renderings of our Earth-Moon, last month I tried the same with planet Mars. NASA has also put high-resolution maps of Mars on the Internet, with the help of which I created a movie and close-ups of interesting areas.

I rarely succeed in good design, my private websites have always looked mediocre. If the emotive word "responsive" is added, frustration is inevitable. But with a bit of luck, I have now successfully put the worst behind me.