Object Render Distance

I have a space scene I am working on and in it I noticed that there is a range to where I can place a planet to where is will or will not be drawn by the renderer.

In fact I found by accident the exact place where when half of an object is rendered and half not.

This does not appear to be a light falloff issue as I'm using a VR Headset and it renders until I look directly at it. Once I found that spot I can drag the object just out of being rendered.

So now that I see this I have found a use for limiting the render area to be much greater or to say I want to narrow the render field even more.

but how?

 

Your camera has a "Near Clipping Plane" and "Far Clipping Plane". Anything placed beyond clip planes will not be rendered on screen.

http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-Camera.html

Also, moving clipping plane further will cause z-fighting artifacts to appear.

 

Thank you neginfinity

 

Which can be solved by having multiple cameras where each one is handling a section of the distance. KSP uses this approach with four cameras (a UI camera, a close-up camera, a mid-range camera, and a distance camera).