[Ed Kolis]

Originally posted by Wydraz:
It would be nice (and somewhat more realistic) if planets had atmospheric halos so you could pick them out a bit better. (!)

You can put "engine glows" on ship models, so it seems feasible that you could put a bunch of them in a spherical grid about a planet to create a halo effect. Not sure how realistic it would look, though. You can also put blinking lights on models (look at the floating cargo crates)... it might be kind of cheesy to have a planet surrounded with a grid of blinking lights, but consider it a computer navigational aid