Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Servicing the Hubble Telescope

Servicing the Hubble Telescope


I have no idea what inspired me to nominate this image; Something about it just apealled to me, so I decided to put the picture through the system and see if anyone else thought the same thing. The photo is a NASA image uploaded by World Traveler and currently appears in the article Hubble Telescope and STS-61.

, though not strongly. IMO there is still something missing here. Colours? Halibutt 14:23, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Nominate and support. - TomStar81 00:06, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment - It looks kind of dull, and green too. How about this?PiccoloNamek 01:24, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Impressive. I like your overhauled pictured; it definatly looks a lot better than the original. TomStar81 01:34, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment I hate to be picky, but the first one is too dull (and a bit green) and the second one is unnaturally bright for outer space. What about making one somewhere in between the two??? --Ironchef8000 23:22, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Just curious, but how do you know how bright outer space is supposed to be? :) In theory, there should be extremely bright highlights and virtually black shadows, as there is no air in space to disperse light beams. Brightness in photographs is the result of exposure. If you left the shutter open long enough, it would look very bright and conversely, if the shutter speed was fast enough, even a direct photo of the sun would look dull. Brightness is a very subjective thing! Diliff 01:21, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Well anyway, here is a third version that is a little less bright and maintains a little more detail in the highlight areas.PiccoloNamek 05:37, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm happy with the third version... But there is a very noticable jpeg artifact on the top left corner of the sky :( I know its present in the original though, so there probably isn't much that can be done short of editing it out manually. Diliff 08:07, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose all three in their current state. #1 is too green, #2 is too bright, #3 shows artifacts. I'm sure it can be a great picture, and I'm happy to look at another edit later. Enochlau 12:59, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. I'm afraid I have to agree with enochlau with this one. It has potential but even the original contains significant artifacts that I hadn't seen until he mentioned it. It just isn't a high quality image and the subject matter doesn't compensate. Diliff 12:29, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
 * There is an outside chance that the artifact could be a solar panel or something of that nature. Any chance it could be cloned out? TomStar81 04:11, 9 November 2005 (UTC)


 *  ( &minus; ) Oppose I don't see it as anything particularly special. There are so many nice photos out in space of astronauts doing stuff, but they just aren't that spectacular to me. --Fir0002 10:08, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Raven4x4x 06:51, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

