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Published: 2012-06-24 12:01:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 37350; Favourites: 1921; Downloads: 1878
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A quick one, made in 1 or 2 hours, reusing assets that I developed for other images.Rendered in Vue.
EDIT: wow, my 7th DD!
Thanks a lot to for featuring it!
If you liked this image, you may also like some other sci-fi images in my gallery.
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How do you feel about the alignment that's going to be at the end 2012?
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I feel that nothing relevant will happen.
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Excellent, wonderful work. I used to do rough pencil sketches of a a ringed planet rising over the horizon. This knocks that vision out of the ballpark.
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It's a double eclipse! I've thought about doing something like it before, it would be the rarest of the rare in celestial events 
I love the lighting and atmosphere too. Such a warm, calm mood to it
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Thanks!
Yes, that would be rare.
Regarding the penumbra area that you mention, actually that is not caused by the atmosphere, as far as I understand from the mechanics of an eclipse. See this diagram, it may shed a light on the topic (pun intended 
Comparing the diagram with my image, it seems right to me. But I could be totally wrong too.
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Ah yes, the classic umbra and penumbra diagram 
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I simply used Vue's feature of 'soft shadows'. That should simulate umbra and penumbra. If e-on implemented that in a physically accurate manner in Vue, then the umbra and penumbra areas should be well calculated. If they didn't... well, I must say I'm not concerned about it because realism comes only in 3rd in my rank of priorities for images (beauty and imagination being 1st and 2nd respectively).
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Truely beautiful! A sense of grandure that is imrpessive!
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