Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/NGC 1097 - 2nd nomination

NGC 1097 (2nd nomination)
Voting period ends on 16 Dec 2019  at 07:36:06 (UTC)
 * Reason:Received 4.5 support votes and 0 oppose votes in the previous attempt. Lede image in the NGC 1097 article.
 * Articles in which this image appears:NGC 1097, Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out
 * Creator:European Southern Observatory


 * Support as nominator – ↠Pine   ( ✉ )  07:36, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Question Are the galaxy's spiral arms slightly cut off? The one on the left seems to loop back into the shot. Nick-D (talk) 08:00, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree that a slightly wider crop would be better, but there are no other images in the Commons category at commons:Category:NGC 1097 that have a similar level of size and clarity and are nearly true color. I think that the closest alternative to this image in regards to quality is the decidedly "false" colored File:Coiled Galaxy.jpg. ↠Pine   ( ✉ )  08:10, 3 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Oppose - Very fuzzy and noisy in full size, appears to be upsampled, also blown higlights in center. This mirror image (do we know which one is correct?) is much better: [] - --Janke | Talk 22:19, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose - needs a wider field of view. The "noise" is actually part of the galaxy (these areas have a low projected area density of stars) - the real noise characteristics of the image are seen on the bottom right. I don't think it is reasonable to observe this galaxy in whole without blowing out/saturating the center. MER-C 20:39, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I beg to disagree. IMO, it looks like upsampled thermal noise of the sensor. Compare with the original-sized mirror image linked above! --Janke | Talk 22:03, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose because (although showing only a much narrower field of view) File:NGC 1097 center Hubble.jpg shows how a much better image of the same subject is possible. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:14, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 11:48, 16 December 2019 (UTC)