Wintersun

<img src="e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/h…" width="15" height="15" alt="" title="hmm" /> I have to agree with you the rays, I'd prefer if you more or less mirrored the blue whispy effect you used below the planet to be above the planet as well. It's the fact that everything is curved and liquid except the rays which are static, straight & pretty flat.

I'm not sure what edits you have made, but the planets look pretty darn good, but I think you should change the lighting angle if at all possible on the right one. I get the impression it is being lit from a light directly to it's left, so it appears to me to be 1/50th of it's diameter away from the sun <img src="e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/h…" width="15" height="15" alt="" title="hmm" />

<img src="e.deviantart.com/emoticons/m/m…" width="15" height="15" alt="" title=" (Mad)" /> I swear I saw this great tutorial on atmospheric lighting on here at one point, but I can't seem to find it now. I feel like your planets are just spheres with no atmosphere, I think it would be pretty cool if you could add a tad bit more of a glow around your planets to show light refraction (if you had *just* atmospheric lighting on the right one, I think it would look more like a back light source, bringing the planet closer to the viewer). I think you can see it a bit here: [link]

The blue star looks great effects wise, but I still feel like it's slightly flat in the center, though I'm not really sure how that could be changed.

The background effects are supurb, I really like your galactic clouds and the stars, very well done (they seem slightly sparse to me, but it's better to err on the low side in my opinion <img src="e.deviantart.com/emoticons/t/t…" width="15" height="15" alt="" title="Thumbs Up" />). Awesome work <img src="e.deviantart.com/emoticons/c/c…" width="15" height="15" alt="" title=" (Cool)" />