Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The God's Eye

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The God's Eye[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 18 Oct 2014 at 14:59:53 (UTC)

Original – This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Helix Nebula
Another FP of the category
Reason
A quality NASA image of NGC 7293, which was a POTYC of 2007 and a featured image on Commons
Articles in which this image appears
Helix Nebula, Spitzer Space Telescope and List of planetary nebulae
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out
Creator
NASA and ESA
  • Support as nominatorThe herald 14:59, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Question - What does this illustrate that the current FP doesn't? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:09, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Crisco 1492: Good question. This nom is in infrared but the FP is in filters like [O III] and (Ha), thus the image showing different compositions and quality. This is the way in which many astro FPs differ from each other, though the subject (sometimes, even perspective) being the same. Plus, you can't see the eye in the current FP. The herald 08:30, 9 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support it can complement each other. This one is almost better too, clearer. Hafspajen (talk) 23:18, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support I don't think we always use these images as well as we should in articles, but this is a very useful image in astronomy. We just need to do a better job explainig what each type of image shows. Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:38, 10 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support --Pine 01:21, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support --The eye does seem more vivid in the current nom.--Godot13 (talk) 05:21, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Yeh, a vivid and wild one...But it's of God..you know..? The herald 06:51, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • There may be some value in rotating one of these images 90 degrees to match the orientation. 24.222.214.125 (talk) 00:40, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Good suggestion, but I am not sure that'll cause any change in the quality of the pic. The herald 16:32, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think it would change the quality of the image. But it would increase the EV for comparing the two. 24.222.214.125 (talk) 18:32, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Comets Kick up Dust in Helix Nebula (PIA09178).jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 15:14, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]