Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/NGC 1672

NGC 1672

Original - The barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672, displays clusters of hot young blue stars along its spiral arms, and clouds of hydrogen gas glowing in red. Curtains of dust partially obscure and redden the light of the stars behind them. NGC 1672's symmetric look is emphasized by the four arms, edged by eye-catching dust lanes that extend out from the centre.

Alternative 1 - hi-res, 5,302 × 3,805 pixels

Reason: A great spiral galaxy, has EV value. Has plenty of wow, the arms are very unique and the dust arms compliment it's distinctive shape. It is currently a featured picture on commons, it was a candidate for picture of the year 2007 and it was picture of the day on the English Wikipedia (but it isn't featured here?).
Articles this image appears in: NGC 1672
Creator: NASA Hubble Space Telescope

Support as nominator --– Jerry^teps 11:03, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Higher res should be available. Also fixed creator - it's not the uploader... --Janke | Talk 14:21, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
~~Support~~ Support Alt 1 I'm not aware of the technicalities highlighted by Janke as I don't understand half of what he's talking about, but as a high quality picture, with good EV and hard to re-take I'm supporting this picture... Much better edit - crisper and a lot more detail... and thanks for saying what you meant - I just couldn't get my head around it! Definate wow... Can't help but think of left over tomato soup being washed down a kitchen sink though............. Gazhiley (talk) 14:38, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Alt. 1 I added the hires version. I was talking about an error in the nom, Jerry got it wrong. --Janke | Talk 14:42, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, ok, sorry, i'm new to FPC. – Jerry^teps 22:25, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problem (others will fix any errors). Stay here a while, and you will learn a lot... and get to see fantastic pictures! ;-) --Janke | Talk 08:34, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Stay here a while, and you will learn a lot..." I second that - I didn't even know how to add comments or edit pages until I came here... And the pics are pretty good too! I've learnt a fair bit about photography too - almost tempted to go and take pics of random stuff near me as a consequence! Gazhiley (talk) 13:47, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Then in your case, I think the FPC project has performed its second most important function - the first, obviously, is building a better encyclopedia! By all means, go and shoot pictures that can improve articles, and upload them, but don't be disappointed if at first, you don't succeed here at FPC. Try, and try again, until you succeed, is a good motto (except in skydiving... ;-) --Janke | Talk 15:04, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, i've really enjoyed FPC, there are some really great pictures here. – Jerry^teps 06:17, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support Alt. 1 Diego_pmc ^Talk 10:12, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Alt 1 - that's more like it! —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξ φ 11:38, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Alt 1 Much better.--HereToHelp ^{(talk to me)} 21:54, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Alt 1 Another nice NASA pic. Spencer^T♦^C 00:03, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Alt 1 may be uploaded over Original depending on the result of the discussion over at Commons. Diego_pmc ^Talk 16:51, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Suggest suspending FPC until discussion over? Anyone agree? – Jerry^teps 00:00, 9 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit 1 - Very good quality and enc value -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 23:59, 10 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted NGC_1672_HST.jpg --Fir0002 07:41, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]