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From bobfranke@halcyon.com:
Nice job on sky, landscape and basic shape of the car.  
I would hate to have to dive with that windshield.  I am 
able to easily pick out the constellations, nice job.  The 
biggest area for improvement is the design of the 
telescope.  A completely bogus design was used just to 
show the magnified image.  However, diversions from 
reality are the artist's prerogative... one reason why we 
call it art.

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From newkirk@snip.net:
Lighting is wonderful and well-placed (expect for vertical artifact between car hood and telescope - from fog?)

Car is well-done, nice scenery without intruding EXCEPT for windshield - every time I look at this image the windshield draws my attention.

Telescope looks odd somehow, perhaps the size of the image in it.  (It should be much smaller, I think, but would then not be a visible component of the image...)


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From johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu:
Lovely image, but there's a major technical boo-boo here...the _back_ of a newtonian reflector would never show an image.

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From twins@srv.net:
That's a comet, not a meteor.

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From Sean_Hamilton@amrcorp.com:
Great job, especially on the desert night sky!

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From gmccarter@hotmail.com:
Good job on the constellations.  Interesting subtle details in the magnified image.
Car headlights and telescopes don't mix very well, you know <g>.

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From djconnel@flash.net:
It's not a bad scene, but I don't really see a "first 
encounter" here.
Also, the appearance of the meteor in the scope is 
highly unrealistic...
it would need to have a video display to appear thus.  It 
has
a lot of potential, though.

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From east103@dialaccess.com:
Nice image.

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From ethelm@bigfoot.com:
Great idea, quite well done. A bit of nit picking:- What 
sort of telescope has something like a TV screen at the 
eyepiece?

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From blaineholmes@hotmail.com:
Nice car and telescope.

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From jaime@ctav.es:
Very nice idea, wel executed. The only thing I can see is perhaps the refraction
level on the car winshield glass. It seems not posible to drive seing through this
glass. ;)

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From arcana@sinbad.net:
The windscreen has too high an ior, unless the owner prefers not to wear
glasses, and had a prescription window put into the car. <grin> There's an
odd shadow/brightness line inbetween the hood of the car and the telescope,
on the left side of the telescope. Maybe it's caused by a shadow from the
car, and a background light source. No door handle? Must be an interesting
exotic car. 


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From r@haka.saunalahti.fi:
Parts of the desert look a bit dull, but otherwise it's a great looking image. It does however fail several reality checks; I doubt the image in the telescope would really be visible from this point, the evening sky wouldn't be any darker through the telescope, and I certainly wouldn't want to drive looking through a windshield like that. Interestingly enough the position of the moon does seem to be appropriate for the time of day as estimated from the color of the sky.