Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Pinwheel Galaxy

Pinwheel Galaxy

The galaxy Messier 101 (M101, also known as NGC 5457 and nicknamed the Pinwheel Galaxy) lies in the northern circumpolar constellation, Ursa Major (The Great Bear), at a distance of 25 million light-years from Earth.

This is one of the largest and most detailed photo of a spiral galaxy that has been released from Hubble. The galaxy's portrait is actually composed of 51 individual Hubble exposures, in addition to elements from images from ground-based photos. It is absolutely stunning to see all the star clusters up close at the full resolution. I would highly suggest looking at the full-res version before voting. The only negative thing I can see about it is that since it is made up of many exposures, some parts are blurrier than others, but I don't find them to take away from the picture. It is on the Pinwheel Galaxy page.

• Nominate and support. - Imaninjapirate 00:23, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Also, I can't seem to get the FPC template tag onto the images page for some reason, could someone do that for me? thank you in advance. :-)Imaninjapirate 00:29, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

• Support - blurry stripes are unfortunate at full res, but invisible in the thumbnail. I was surprised just how much detail there was elsewhere in the image - detail that totally compensated for the blurrier regions. I wish it had a legend though that indicated what objects like stellar nebulae, globular clusters, etc... looked like. Any astronomers out there want to append it? Debivort 01:12, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Oppose I'm afraid the blurry stripes really detract from the image IMO. A pity, as the detail throughout most of the image is stunning. --YFB ¿ 01:23, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
• SupportLooks good, especially in a thumbnail, which fixes the almost unnoticable fuzzy lines. Dark jedi requiem 06:25, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose due to the blurry stripes, kills it for me - it's otherwise so fantastic that I want it to be perfect... In time, we will get a perfect image. --Janke | Talk 16:49, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose due to technical problems. It's not enough for the image to look good in thumbnail. howcheng {chat} 17:22, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose. Blurry stripes. And is it oversharpened, or are all those really stars? --Tewy 23:29, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
  • What looks like oversharpendness (word?) is actually stars, becuase if you look off to the corners, where the galaxy isn't, it doesn't look oversharpened, so it must be the stars.Imaninjapirate 00:33, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose. Rather bad quality for a Hubble NASA image. NauticaShades 20:21, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Not promoted --KFP (talk | contribs) 13:40, 30 October 2006 (UTC)