Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dione and Saturn.jpg

Dione and Saturn

Dione in front of Saturn, as seen by the Cassini probe

My reason for nominating is simple: it's gorgeous. It's an entirely natural photograph, not an artificial montage. The black band on Saturn is the shadow cast by its rings. The picture as a whole gives a great indication of the relationships between Saturn, its rings and its moons.

Created by NASA.

• Nominate and support. - The Singing Badger 16:11, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
• Support, breathtaking image. Rhobite 22:41, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
• Support. indeed, awesome. Halibutt 11:02, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
• Support -- TomStar81 05:38, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
• Neutral. It shows some interesting features, but I just find it a little uninspiring. Enochlau 07:56, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
• Support. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-10-26 22:27
• ( + ) Support Reality can be stunning sometimes... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 15:50, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
• ( + ) Support Out of this world! :-) A tad too compressed though (51KB) --Fir0002 09:47, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
  • There's a tif on the source page if you want to recompress it yourself. I don't see any glaring artifacts, however. (Support.) —Cryptic (talk) 02:50, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Good idea. I went ahead and recompressed it at a better level from the TIFF. It looks slightly better now. Rhobite 03:01, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
• Support. --ScottyBoy900Q∞ 00:02, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
• Support: Wow! RENTASTRAWBERRY ^{FOR LET?} röck 03:32, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
• Support. Gotta love HQ space photos... :D Staxringold 21:19, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
• Support, seems artificial, but isn't, and that makes it beautiful. Titoxd^(?!?) 05:07, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
• Support --Rogerd 03:42, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
• Support That is a really nice picture. --Ironchef8000 23:19, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Dione 2005 Oct 11 (PIA07744).jpg Raven4x4x 07:52, 6 November 2005 (UTC)