Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Christmas Tree Cluster

Christmas Tree Cluster edit

The Christmas Tree Star Cluster will eventually break apart.

This picture was taken by Nasa's Spitzer Space Telescope, and appears in the article Star cluster. As it was "Image of the day" on the Nasa web-page, the captions are very detailed. I am nominating this picture for it's good quality and good captions (which can later be added to the article).

Nominate and Support | AndonicO 01:02, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose. Sharp with minimal grain, but there what look to be stitching erros running vertically across the image. Oh, and why are the stars blue? --Tewy 01:40, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Because this is not a visible light photo, Spitzer observes infra-red wavelengths. So there is no reason for the stars to appear in their actual colours - Adrian Pingstone 07:32, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Or the stars may just be blue, there are blue stars, such as the Pleiades. Imaninjapirate 00:40, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose As Tewy mentions there is a vertical stitching error on the left. This is odd in organisations as expert as NASA/JPL/Caltech but maybe they didn't want to adjust the brightnesses for scientific reasons. However that rules the picture out for me - Adrian Pingstone 07:32, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: We can fix that stitching error, if it's the only reason for opposing... --Janke | Talk 09:45, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I don't know how to fix a stich error, perhaps one of you (or Fir0002) could do it? | AndonicO 11:49, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I'm not sure if I see the stiching errors. I see some a number of vertical bands just above and to the left of the brightest star, and one strange vertical band to the right of that same star. Is that what everyone is talking about?--Andrew c 16:39, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: (1) Please add the source URL of the web page where you downloaded this from. (2) Please consider uploading public domain/free use images to the Commons instead. Thanks. howch e ng {chat} 17:46, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- The URL is http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_476.html.
- By uploading to the Commons, do you mean uploading there before here, or just there? | AndonicO Talk 18:09, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - See Wikipedia:Uploading images#How to upload. It basically says that when an image is uploaded to Commons, it can be used on all the wikis, rather than just the English Wikipedia. --Tewy 18:23, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    - Oh, so now I should upload it to the Commons too? | AndonicO Talk 18:33, 20 October 2006 (UTC)'[reply]
      - Yes, and when that's done, I'll delete it from here. howch e ng {chat} 20:41, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - There are already two featured pictures that are very similar.. & . The first is way better than the candidate, and the second is similar in quality.. but I wouldn't vote the second in now anyway. Beyond that, it does look like a christmas tree. (upside down, of course.) drumguy8800 C T 18:52, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- That is not a reason to oppose a picture. You should vote on the quality of the image itself, not the fact that two incredibly different shots of the universe exist as FPs already. Besides, we are running low on unique FPs to use as FPD. ♠ SG →Talk 22:50, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Ok, it's on the Commons now 2264.jpg. By the way, I like this picture better than the second one you show there Drumguy. | AndonicO Talk 23:33, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support Extremely spectacular, looks brilliant. TheJosh 03:22, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Abstain It is a good picture, but I cannot vote for it due to the softness of all the features, the monochromatic nature of the stars, and the stitching problems. HighInBC ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 14:47, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --KFP (talk | contribs) 18:29, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]