I fiddled  with the environment editor under Sun and Moon Settings StrBrite. If 
I increase the star brightness in both SL and OS there comes a point where they 
look like shapes as per Ai's photo. OS looks a bit more shapely but it is 
difficult matching skies. I am using an NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M and Firestorm 
4.3.1.31155  15-inch, Mid 2012 MBP.  At 2.00 (nice dots) becoming more shapely 
with increasing brightness.

On 11 Jan 2013, at 17:39, Nebadon Izumi wrote:

> I spoke to Linden Labs about this a long time ago, I believe this is a driver 
> issue, do you get same results in Second Life, at the time I noticed this i 
> was having same problem in SL and OpenSim, and one of the Lindens seemed 
> somewhat unaware of the issue, and after asking others about it i recall the 
> answer being its a driver problem with video cards. If you could test in 
> Second Life that would be great.
> 
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Tom <[email protected]> wrote:
> You are right. I do not think that this is a problem though. I checked some 
> photos of stars http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/astronomy/nightsky/nskynov12.html 
> (Jodrell Bank) and shapes seem more realistic.  Of course even more 
> realistic, in an urban environment, is to not see the stars due to street 
> lights etc. The budget conscious council has plans to remedy this though! 
> 
> On 11 Jan 2013, at 15:00, Ai Austin wrote:
> 
>> I wonder if anyone knows the reason that stars in the night sky in OpenSim 
>> might look more like a shape than a dot?
>> 
>> I think this has been the way the stars jave looked for some years in 
>> OpenSim (but not SL), in multiple different viers, so I am not thinking its 
>> a cache issue.
>> 
>> Anyone else spotted this or know the cause?
>> 
>> Sample in this temporary image ...
>> 
>> http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/EXPORT/TEMP/Openvue-Stars-Not-Dots.jpg
>> 
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