Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/CG 4

CG 4

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 26 Feb 2015 at 11:19:28 (UTC)

Original – Like the gaping mouth of a gigantic celestial creature, the cometary globule CG 4 glows menacingly in this image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Although it looks huge and bright in this image it is actually a faint nebula and not easy to observe.

Reason

A quality image of CG 4 cometary globule

Articles in which this image appears

CG 4

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out

Creator

ESO

• Support as nominator –  - T H (here I am) 11:19, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
• Front page spook picture for Halloween! Weak support - unnecessarily large, grain/noise covers details, half size would be good enough. --Janke | Talk 14:13, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

@Janke: But for space FPs, the bigger it is, the better it will be. It is what I have learnt from Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Needle Galaxy 4565.jpeg and seen in File:Carina Nebula by ESO.jpg and File:NGC 2467 and Surroundings.jpg as well as in the Great Spider. Those grains are diffraction spikes (IMO) which are inevitable in space pics.  - T H (here I am) 14:35, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

• Support Acceptable for a long-exposure space pic. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 22:58, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Jobas (talk) 16:48, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Great -Alborzagros (talk) 12:37, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Hafspajen (talk) 16:50, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:CG 4 by ESO.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:03, 26 February 2015 (UTC)