Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Throughout the night the constellations / Have given light from various stations

Perseus

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 7 Mar 2014 at 04:05:12 (UTC)

Original – A traditional mythological depiction of the constellation Perseus, showing how the various stars are fit into the figure.

Reason: Part of a set of illustrations, of which at least one is already featured, showing the mythological representations of the constellations. I actually have a few more of these prepared, but apparently never nominated them. I have no clue why. Never mind.
Articles in which this image appears: Perseus (constellation) +1
FP category for this image: No clue. The one featured is in WP:Featured pictures/Artwork/Others which seems... strange.
Creator: Sidney Hall, restoration by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator --Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 04:05, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Getting bored of ships, are we? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:26, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Urania's Mirror actually copies the constellation figures from A Celestial Atlas, which in my opinion has more beautiful plates. Some time ago I was digging for a featurable atlas of constellations and tentatively chose three: A Celestial Atlas, Globi coelestis in tabulas planas redacti descriptio and Atlas, Designed to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens by Elijah Burritt. Brandmeister^talk 14:32, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- @Brandmeister: I've tried to make use of your suggestion, but don't think very many of them are going to work out as suitable for general display on Wikipedia (as opposed to on the A Celestial Atlas page, since they will not thumbnail well, due to fading and very delicate lines. Compare:
  
  While the art is certainly better, the useablity is minimal without taking steps well beyond what are generally considered acceptable. The Urania's Mirror may be less carefully drawn, with thicker lines - but they will thumbnail clearly. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 06:18, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - If it's indeed fading and not the original colors, I think it's possible to just increase the saturation and/or add contrast. I haven't done it myself since I'm unsure. Brandmeister^talk 08:53, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    - The restored version is with the saturation raised as far as I could possibly justify - and possibly slightly beyond. Inks fade at different rates, so it can be very, very hard to get good results with this sort of thing. Of course, the biggest problem is likely to be the erratic colouring - in the best case scenario, a restored Jamieson one might be great at Boötes, but no Jamieson image colours Quadrans Muralis or Coma Berenices, so those would always default to the Sidney Hall. Also, while the illustrations are clearly based on the Jamieson images, Hall crops them differently from the celestial globe on some plates, sometimes to his advantage - compare, for example, the Perseus seen here with Jamieson's one-footed Perseus to the one being voted on here. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 09:19, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 04:32, 7 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]