Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/NGC 4603

NGC 4603

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Original – NGC 4603 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Centaurus. It has been found to contain over 36 Cepheid variable stars, being the most distant galaxy the Hubble Space Telescope has found to contain Cepheid variable stars.

Reason

Unique image, best picture available for this object.

Articles in which this image appears

NGC 4603

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out

Creator

Jeffery Newman (Univ. of California at Berkeley) and NASA

• Support as nominator --LlamaAl (talk) 14:28, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose Too small and not sharp enough. Compared to other galaxy FPs it doesn't hold up. See similar shots like File:M82 HST ACS 2006-14-a-large web.jpg or File:Hubble2005-01-barred-spiral-galaxy-NGC1300.jpg. ceranthor 17:57, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
  • Messier 82 ([1]) is about 12 Mly away and NGC 1300 is about 61 Mly away, while NGC 4603 is about 142 Mly ([2], image source says it's 108 Mly) away. You think distance plays into how big of an image we can reasonably expect? — raekyt 20:57, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
• Comment It also looks like it was cropped from a larger image. ceranthor 17:58, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose It is off-center, and clearly much of the object is cropped. Razum2010 (talk) 02:15, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose Off center and looks like a bad crop, per above. Cat-fivetc ---- 07:30, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
• Comment Size can easily be explained if you actually read about the object, "Because NGC 4603 is much farther away than the other galaxies studied with Hubble by the Key Project team, 108 million light-years, its stars appear very faint from the Earth" and "spiral galaxy NGC 4603, the most distant galaxy in which a special class of pulsating stars called Cepheid variables have been found" Not all astronomical images can be huge, and due to distance some leeway can be given. Obviously not a full image of the galley though. — raekyt 23:25, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Not Promoted --LlamaAl (talk) 21:23, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

• Withdrawn by nominator. LlamaAl (talk) 21:23, 21 February 2013 (UTC)