Hi Kixum,

Thanks for replying.

Yes I had the ambient light turned on, so I set that down to zero. Didn't help all that much. There were no other environmental settings for the scene - apart from using starfield.jpg as the background map. The settings that I used for this was the same as for the preset space scenes.

As you suggested, I fixed the zoom setting so that Camera 1 has 98.883% next to it. However, when I did a full-size render, the background stars still looked like blobs of jello.

Attached is my latest feeble attempt.

regards,
Andrew