And I am on a laundry strike, so you want a towel... go and wash it yourself! 
Ooo! :-O 
Yes I made the object out of layers, no glass is used and "Compute glass transparency" also isn't ticked.
The object needs some more work though, to add more graduating layers, for extra realism. I guess in its current form, it would look good from a distance.
Sorry couldn't reply yesterday, I was on a training course, titled "How not to get swamped down with work!" presented by some guy named Ben, or was it O'Ben.
Do you have any updated renders yet?
db4tech
Edit:
And how did you get the moon? I wanna try it....
Oops! Forgot to say about the moon, you need a very, very, very long rope!Okay the moon is just a very large sphere, with a very large and very bright light in front of it. Improvisation.
