Template:Did you know nominations/Star trail (photography)

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The result was: promoted by Allen3 talk 10:14, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Star trail (photograph)[edit]

Star trail photograph taken by astronaut Don Pettit on the International Space Station

Created/expanded by Astrocog (talk). Self nom at 15:42, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

  • Hook seems pretty boring to me and anyway isn't directly immediately cited in the article. How about this? --Rnickel (talk) 16:45, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
ALT1: ... that star trail observations of Polaris have been used to measure the vibrations in telescope mounting systems?
  • I'm fine with this alternative. Let's see what others think.AstroCog (talk) 16:52, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
  • Other than figuring out the hook, the text seems good to go: Long enough, recent enough (assuming the "move from user space" date counts as the article creation date, right?), tone good. Only caviats:
  • no way to check for copyvio since all the refs are print.
  • I wasn't sure about the image... is it supposed to say "(pictured)" somewhere in the hook? Also I wasn't sure how to tell if it's public domain as required.
--Rnickel (talk) 17:06, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
  • Can't help with print articles/books. I'm old-school, what can I say?
  • Image is public domain. If you click on the image, you'll see it's on the commons site, and has a public domain tag (image from NASA).
DYK rules say that the date of move from user space counts as creation date for new articles. Cheers, AstroCog (talk) 17:37, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
  • GOOD TO GO, with ALT1 hook, but I would say as a text DYK, as the 100x100 pixel image does not work for that picture. Unless someone can be bothered to do a zoomed crop of the image and upload it? Just a thought. Geoffjw1978 T L C 22:50, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
    • The other images in the article also don't work well in 100px. I found this one in the commons: Circumpolar Star Trails With High Flyer
    • What do you think? Cheers, AstroCog (talk) 23:01, 16 October 2012 (UTC)