Problem about viewing the sky from earth in celestia1.6

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Problem about viewing the sky from earth in celestia1.6

Post #1by jcyf007 » 11.04.2003, 16:21

When i zoom in earth of altitude about 15m and below ,i see the sky is vibrating and the colour change,why is that,it is also the same when i view the sky from other planet.here are the codes of my earth ssc :

"Earth" "Sol"
{
Texture "earth.jpg"
NightTexture "earthnight.jpg"
# SpecularTexture "earthspec4k.png"
Color [ 0.85 0.85 1.0 ]
SpecularColor [ 0.05 0.5 0.55 ]
SpecularPower 25.0
HazeColor [ 1 1 1 ]
HazeDensity 0.3
Radius 6378
# Oblateness 0.003

# BumpMap "earthbump.png"
# BumpHeight 4.5

Atmosphere {
Height 60
Lower [ 0.5 0.5 0.65 ]
Upper [ 0.3 0.3 0.6 ]
Sky [ 0.3 0.6 0.9 ]
CloudHeight 7
CloudSpeed 65
CloudMap "earth-clouds.png"
}

CustomOrbit "vsop87-earth"
EllipticalOrbit {
Period 1.0000
SemiMajorAxis 1.0000
Eccentricity 0.0167
Inclination 0.0001
AscendingNode 348.739
LongOfPericenter 102.947
MeanLongitude 100.464
}

RotationPeriod 23.9344694 # 23.93419
RotationOffset 280.5 # offset at default epoch J2000
Obliquity -23.45
Albedo 0.30
}
And how to make reflections of earth???

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