Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Eagle Nebula (2nd nomination)

Eagle Nebula (2nd nomination)

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Original – Three-colour composite mosaic image of the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16, or NGC 6611), based on images obtained with the Wide-Field Imager camera on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory. This wide-field image shows not only the central pillars, but also several others in the same star-forming region, as well as a huge number of stars in front of, in, or behind the Eagle Nebula. The cluster of bright stars to the upper right is NGC 6611, home to the massive and hot stars that illuminate the pillars. The “Spire” — another large pillar — is in the middle left of the image. This image is a composite of 3 filters in the visible range: B (blue), V (green) and R (red).

Reason

Good quality for an astronomy photo, and is the lead image for the Eagle Nebula article

Articles in which this image appears

Eagle Nebula, Nebulae in fiction, Gum catalog, RCW Catalogue, Sharpless catalog, The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out

Creator

ESO

• Support as nominator – Pine^✉ 04:59, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
• Support But too much information in the description. Much would be better done as notes on the image. Charlesjsharp (talk) 10:20, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
• Support – EV, looks a bit too noisy, but probably as good as it gets for years to come. Bammesk (talk) 00:33, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
• Support – Great EV. --Janke | Talk 12:53, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
• Support. While I feel that this image could do with a larger field of view, we can always replace it later. This is good enough. MER-C 14:05, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Promoted File:Eagle Nebula from ESO.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 05:00, 7 November 2018 (UTC)