Quote -  A tangent on this: WHERE do you people get good sky images for that environment sphere?

Here is a good place to start. Also try searching Google images for 'equirectangular'.

EDIT: if you have Vue, you can set up an atmosphere and render it as equirectangular - I've achieved some good results using the PLE.

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