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shade=100 is important, because it says that nighttime regions should be shaded at 100% of daytime illumination. When drawing maps, the nighttime shading isn't normally needed, so set that to 100 to turn it off
 
<table>
<tr><td>Projection</td>
<td> orthographic
</td></tr>
 
<tr><td>config</td>
<td>data script
</td></tr>
 
<tr><td>latitude, longitude</td>
<td>where to centre an orthographic projection
</td></tr>
 
<tr><td>num_times</td>
<td>must be 1 (stop xplanet running continuously)
</td></tr>
 
<tr><td>geometry</td>
<td>width and height of the desired image
</td></tr>
 
<tr><td>output</td>
<td>where to save the image
</td></tr>
 
<tr><td>radius</td>
<td>radius of the earth, as a percentage of image width (make this bigger to zoom in)
</td></tr>
 
<tr><td>radius</td>
<td>try the [http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/README.config docs]
</td></tr>
</table>
 
==How to produce "globe images of earth showing where a region is located==