@pfrancke
Just download Celestia-ED 1.5.1, and you can get starfields just like the one I posted. Also, I'm thinking about turning freelancah's starfield into a spherical environment map (sky bubble) that can be projected spherically onto a background sphere to get 360-degree stars that move with the other objects in the scene if animated. I've already done this type of thing in Anim8or, and I've been using the effect for a long time.