Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/M 81

The perfect galactic wirlpool

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 4 Apr 2015 at 15:58:41 (UTC)

Original – M81 also known as Bode's Galaxy is around 12 million light years away. It has an irregular satellite galaxy known as Homberg IX.

Reason

A high quality astro image with great EV

Articles in which this image appears

M 81

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out

Creator

Ken Crawford

• Support as nominator – -The Herald ^{the joy of the LORD}_{my strength} 15:58, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support, only because File:Messier81 highres.jpg is below the minimum resolution and this is still a great image. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:19, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support - If Crisco 1492 says the res is up to snuff, I would love to see this on the main page. HullIntegrity^\ talk / 02:04, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support, - Hafspajen (talk) 00:13, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
• Support - SchroCat (talk) 20:34, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
• Support - CorinneSD (talk) 01:54, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:M81.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:59, 4 April 2015 (UTC)