Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Transit of Venus, 2012

Transit of Venus, 2012[edit]

Relisted after suspension.

Reason: Breathtaking view of a rare astronomical phenomenon, high quality, very good encyclopedic value
Articles in which this image appears: Transit of Venus, 2012, Transit of Venus, Solar Dynamics Observatory
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out
Creator: Solar Dynamics Observatory

Alt, animation

Support as nominator --EngineerFromVega ^★ 10:27, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I considered this image before, but think an animation would serve better, so added it as alt (perhaps this is the most decent animation of 2012 transit currently available). Brandmeister^talk 11:18, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment ~~Original has not been in article for the required 7 days per criteria 5.~~ Dusty777 23:29, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- I suggest suspending on that basis. JJ Harrison (talk) 23:50, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  - My apologies for being a bit over-zealous. Please suspend this nomination for a week. EngineerFromVega ^★ 05:55, 10 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Suspended pending article stability. --jjron (talk) 15:27, 10 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support Original Has excellent EV. Good technical quality. Dusty777 16:24, 29 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The original is not taken from Earth so is not strictly a picture of the transit of Venus. Yomangani ^talk 01:41, 30 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Quoting from Astronomical transit, it states:

"A transit is the astronomical event that occurs when one celestial body appears to move across the face of another celestial body, hiding a small part of it, as seen by an observer at some particular vantage point."

It doesn't say you have to see it from Earth for it to qualify as a transit. Also, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (the instrument which took the picture) is a satellite of Earth, so it has nearly the same vantage point as anyone on Earth did while observing the transit. Dusty777 02:40, 30 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That's a transit, not the Transit of Venus, 2012 which refers to the transit of Venus visible from the Earth (otherwise it would still be occurring if you happened to be floating in space in the correct position). Yomangani ^talk 23:36, 30 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ohhh.... I see what you mean. Thank you for the clarification. Dusty777 02:33, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support original. Stunning. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 07:49, 30 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support original with the note that I've added the image to two other articles, Transit of Venus and Solar Dynamics Observatory. I understand Yomangani's concern and hopefully adding the image to the other two articles will help. I think the image is especially unlikely to be removed from the Solar Dynamics Observatory article. Pine^✉ 19:57, 1 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support Original JJ Harrison (talk) 04:16, 7 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:SDO's Ultra-high Definition View of 2012 Venus Transit (304 Angstrom Full Disc 02).jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 22:08, 9 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for promoting it. I feel good as this was my first successful nomination. EngineerFromVega ^★ 06:33, 10 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]