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The common star catalogues do not contain any brown dwarfs (failed stars) or free-floating planets, so I have created a corresponding catalogue myself. It currently contains 869 objects, 15 of which are within 20 light-years.

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.

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.

Hosts some macros to create easy and fast to render skys, planets, sun and horizons.