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I have created a beautiful sunburst coming out from behind a moon. (Inspired by the Voyager opening sequence) I also had the same problem, and the solution that worked best was to hide the object until about 10 frames before it emerged from the moon, and to scale it down to 1% of it's original size, re-sizing it over the 10 frames it took to get to the edge. When setting the Flare options, set it to go off relative to object size. It turned out very well for me. (P.S. Do you have trouble finding good texture maps for moon/lunar surfaces?) Hope this helps!