Thanks, but as gradient's go they were all a complete cheat.



The rays are just simple shapes, ie 1 yellow ray, and inside it a smaller, reddish-orange ray, and I then applied a horizontal, and a vertical blur to both shapes.



The orange background was a simple round gradient, centered under the light blast.



I put a big circle, with a soft gradient, blurring into nothing at the edge, around the central light blast too.



If I understood inkscape better, I probably would have figured out a better way to do al of that.