Quest: Your image is very, very, good, great render and composition. But that's a VERY bright moon. Are you sure that isn't the Bryce sun? :^) The moon in my pic was as bright as I could get it inside of Bryce 5. Check item 1 under my original post. I was trying my best to use native Bryce without postwork on the sky, to see how good that I could get that to work. I agree with everything you say, I was testing my skill with Bryce 5. Normally I would just create a starfield with the Universe plug-in in Photoshop Elements, and slap a moon texture on a sphere in Bryce. But that would have been cheating under the rules I wrote myself to follow (I was trying to challenge myself. Nothing wrong with postwork, but I felt I wasn't learning the true limits of the program itself.) Thanks to all for your comments! Tjohn

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