Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Eruptive Solar Prominence

Eruptive Solar Prominence[edit]

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Reason: Amazing image, which shows the huge, erupting solar prominence. The image has a very high encyclopedic value. It illustrates the subject in a compelling way, making the viewer want to know more about solar prominences and the sun in general.
Proposed caption: Large, eruptive prominence in He II at 304Å, with an image of the Earth added for size comparison. This prominence from 24 July 1999 is particularly large and looping, extending over 35 Earths out from the Sun. Erupting prominences (when Earthward directed) can affect communications, navigation systems, even power grids, while also producing auroras visible in the night skies
Articles this image appears in: Solar Prominence
Creator: SOHO (NASA)

Strong Support as nominator Mbz1 18:35, 5 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Terrible quality, looks like a bad scan from a book. Alvesgaspar 19:21, 5 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The picture was taken from SOHO web site. I have neither scanner nor book with this image.--Mbz1 19:51, 5 August 2007 (UTC)Mbz1[reply]
  - The sun is not an easy thing to photograph, you're going to get gsraininess on any picture of it. Adam Cuerden ^talk 22:15, 5 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Mediocre-quality picture of an extremely hard to photograph subject = good picture Adam Cuerden ^talk 22:15, 5 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
oppose main part of the image is unnecessarily enlarged leading to the blurry pixelation. This image is effectively much smaller than the 1k px guideline, and doesn't meet FPC2a. Debivort 02:12, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
support interesting subject matter Bleh999 02:54, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Debivort. thegreen J Are you green? 03:19, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. I would support a higher-quality version of this image. But I strongly doubt this is one of the best quality copies of an image of this event. On image quality, I agree with either Alvesgaspar or Debivort. Mbz1 - I agree that you didn't scan it, or take it - but that fact doesn't make it higher quality. Zakolantern 05:35, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This image is ineligible. SOHO images are copyrighted and are {{db-noncom}} material! This is noted on the bottom of {{PD-USGov-NASA}}. Can someone get this image deleted, please? MER-C 09:15, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done --Fir0002 09:52, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 00:29, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Expired nomination. Makeemlighter (talk) 00:29, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]