Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Comet-Hale-Bopp-29-03-1997 hires adj.jpg

Comet Hale-Bopp
This is a Commons featured picture of the Comet Hale-Bopp. Also used in Comet and Auahitūroa, although I'm not sure what relevance it has to the latter. Taken by Philip Salzgeber and released under a CC-BY-SA license.
 * Nominate and support.  howch e  ng   {chat} 16:27, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose edit -- introduces too many artifacts around the stars.  howch e  ng   {chat} 16:00, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment I am concered about the status of the copyright of this image, I have made my concerns clear here: Image talk:Comet-Hale-Bopp-29-03-1997 hires adj.jpg HighInBC 17:04, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I've emailed the photographer for clarification.  howch e  ng   {chat} 17:33, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Got the reply. His astronomical photos are licensed under Creative Commons. We're all good.  howch e  ng   {chat} 20:25, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Yay! I am so glad when an image reaches public freedom. HighInBC 21:22, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Support This is an excellent picture of the comet that shows how bright and large it is, for someone who had not seen the real thing it is a great way to see it Z 17:16, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Support original pending copyright verification. Excellent picture showing it's subject very well. I give full support despite the motion blur on the stars caused by the 2 min exposure, unavoidable due to low light and the fact that rotating the camera in time with the stars would have blurred everything else. The noise reduced one has some nasty artifacts around the stars, the original is better.HighInBC 18:18, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Support provided license OK. Some dust specks could be removed, and a little downsampling to get rid of the grain - no loss of info in say, 60% size. --Janke | Talk 19:27, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. Horribly grainy, but who cares! These things don't show up every day, you know. Actually, I really would prefer to see an edit on this to reduce the grain. -- Tewy  23:50, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Support original. It seems like an edit to reduce the grain would be difficult. -- Tewy  22:22, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Support A nice picture of something that only comes around once in a few hundred years. This picture is not only very encyclopedic but also very appealling.  --Midnight Rider 02:58, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * A few thousand years would be more accurate for this particular comet. HighInBC 02:58, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Support the original, nice picture of Comet-Hale-Bopp  --Luc Viatour 14:03, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. Very eyecatching image of this phenomenon. --jjron 11:52, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Support per above. —Jared Hunt September 9, 2006, 04:14 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] Support Original --Fir0002 12:22, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Support - Quality image. would make great addition to featured pictures. -- ZeWrestler  Talk 16:10, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Reducing grain on this is close to impossible. Because removing so much grain causes other problems and even if it doesn't you may even take a star or two. Arad 22:15, 9 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Support. It's all been said. Nauticashades 19:09, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

 howch e  ng   {chat} 18:45, 13 September 2006 (UTC)