Sometimes things don't work out as planned

I'm trying to depict the location of every satellite relative to the space station, but I was stuck with the problem of wanting the Earth to look decent, so I used the only scriptable rendering environment I knew - POVRay - and used that to make 360 renders of the Earth from LEO.

Boy it was slow..... so I turned the planet from an isosphere with actual terrain into a bump map and things got a lot faster.

Now it only took a week to render one orbit, my poor laptop was locked in a corner with its fan running full blast.

And it turned out wrong, I think my math for satellite positions isn't working correctly.

The good news is the slowest part is the planet rendering and I kept those frames separate before drawing the satellites all over it, as such I'm going to reuse those frames and see if I can make it work.

Satellites As Seen From ISS (Simulation) (YouTube)