An addition: There is a panoramic starry sky photo somewhere on the Web. I downloaded it as tiff under the name of ... tycho8.tif, I believe.... funny thing, I found it in-country, at the web site of Visnjan observatory. :-) http://www.astro.hr/ucionica/tom/maps/ Anyway, create a gradient map for the glow as well as the greyscale map of the same for the blending. Apply the photo to a semi-sphere in Channel A, the gradient in Channel B and the greyscale in Channel C. I now forget which is which, is black -> show texture A or texture B. But you'll see very quickly. Go to the Sky Editor and play with Cloud Altitude. I'm sorry, no pictures because I'm at work. If you want, I'll do them when I get back home tonight. PS That TIFF constantly crashed my Bryce, so if it does the same with you, just resave it as JPG. Also, increasing the ambience will probably help stars to stick out more.

-- erlik