Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Messier 43

Messier 43 Galaxy

 * Reason:Stunning. I looked at the full res version and almost thought it was fake. It's beautiful, at least to my somewhat trained eye. Yet another HST image nom. by me, but its probably the best.
 * Articles this image appears in:Messier 43
 * Creator:Hubble Space Telescope


 * Support as nominator --&mdash; Sunday  •  (Testify!)  12:47, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak Oppose Though the nebula itself looks very good, noise issues in the area arround it prevent me from supporting.  Spencer T♦C 03:47, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose This is nothing but a crop of the existing Orion nebula FP. No reason it should be featured. TheOtherSiguy (talk) 18:19, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedy Close Victorrocha (talk) 02:50, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedy Close - I realized that I tried to do this before, and realized that the pic was a crop. Withdrawn. &mdash; Sunday  ·  Speak  13:26, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

MER-C 10:00, 2 October 2008 (UTC)