Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/STS-129 Atlantis Ready to Fly

STS-129 Atlantis Ready to Fly

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 5 Oct 2018 at 05:27:54 (UTC)

Original – "The Space Shuttle Atlantis is seen on launch pad 39A at the NASA Kennedy Space Center shortly after the rotating service structure was rolled back on Nov. 15, 2009. Atlantis is scheduled to launch at 2:28 p.m. EST, Nov. 16, 2009."

ALT – De-noised sky area.

Reason: Very interesting image, informative regarding the structure of the launch platform, nice colors, and used in multiple articles
Articles in which this image appears: STS-129, Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Space Shuttle
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Getting there
Creator: NASA/Bill Ingalls

~~Support as nominator~~Support alt as original's nominator – Pine^✉ 05:27, 25 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Changed to support Bammesk's alt. --Pine^✉ 18:17, 29 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Is this level of noise acceptable nowadays? Counterbalancing that is that this picture is irreplaceable. Not sure how to vote yet. MER-C 19:46, 25 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support alternate (changed vote). MER-C 08:39, 26 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support (either version) – I'm not bothered by the noise, since the details are sharp enough. Somebody could give the sky (but nothing else) a bit of de-noising, though. --Janke | Talk 19:55, 25 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support ALT (changed vote) – EV, and agree with Janke. Bammesk (talk) 00:49, 26 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support I think the noise is acceptable here and denoising would be very tricky. Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:23, 26 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I introduced an alternate denoised version (denoised just the sky area, it wasn't easy, but doable) and changed my vote. Pinging those who voted: @Pine, MER-C, Janke, and Charlesjsharp: ---- Bammesk (talk) 03:45, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support ALT - The NMI User (talk) 04:52, 30 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support ALT --Yann (talk) 15:34, 1 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:STS-129 Atlantis Ready to Fly - edit1.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 06:49, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]