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Original – Area surrounding the stellar cluster NGC 2467, in the southern constellation of Puppis. This area is noted for star births. For an annotated image, see its description in Commons
Reason
Found this doing well at FPC on Commons. Huge, vivid, and interesting picture with decent EV. I took out two Hubble images since the article is so short and this one was better quality. If anyone has objections to that, please feel free to let me know!
Articles in which this image appears
NGC 2467, European Southern Observatory
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out
Creator
ESO
  • Support — I expanded the image description and provided annotations (visible in Commons) that, I believe, help increase the EV of this image. In particular, one should note that the use of false colors is not at all arbitrary. In this image, red is used to denote the H-alpha line of hydrogen, while green denotes doubly-ionized oxygen OIII. Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 06:02, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support image has excellent technical quality and good encyclopedic value. But I don't think the Hubble photos should be removed from the article, since the Hubble photos have far greater magnification (field of view only 3.5 arcminutes compared to 29.77 arcminutes in this picture). Purpy Pupple (talk) 00:53, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sorry, I had posted a reply before but it seems to have disappeared! Odd. My only worry is that given the length of the article I won't be able to include the images without using a gallery, which is typically frowned upon nowadays. Would anyone object to a gallery in this case? ceranthor 22:19, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:NGC 2467 and Surroundings.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 21:48, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]