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Original - Built and operated by the European Southern Observatory, the Paranal Observatory in Chile is home to the Very Large Telescope, an array of four telescopes, each with an aperture of 8.2 metres. This view from the observatory takes in the night sky; as well as the Milky Way, spy the moon on the horizon just rising, the zodiacal light above it, and the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds.
Edit 1: Noise reduced on the ground only.
Reason
Big, interesting, FP on Commons.
Articles in which this image appears
Milky Way, Paranal Observatory
Creator
ESO (more specifically, H.H. Heyer)
  • Won't be able to for a few hours. I'll see what I can do when I get home. Maedin\talk 12:52, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yeah, what are all these white specks? Zillions of hot pixels?! Suggest aggressive denoising to remove them all!!1!!one!eleven
  • On a more serious note. The blending around the 360 degree seam is screwed up. This makes it an eyesore in a pano-viewer. This is a complete mystery to me, how you can taint such a nice image with such a mistake. --Dschwen 16:55, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
P.S. I support either. Edit1 is clearly better if one bothers to zoom way in and meanders about looking at the telescopes. My vote may be added to the larger consensus for either picture since I find both to be suitable for the intended purpose as an FP. Greg L (talk) 14:49, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hmm, I thought edit 1 was part of the April 1 joke, but perhaps not. To clarify, I support the original version, but very strongly oppose edit 1. The "noise" is not uniform, and much of it is from fainter stars. Zoom in on the Small Magellanic cloud, as just one example, to see how crippled edit 1 is. --Avenue (talk) 00:46, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Suspend so I can fix my edit. Maedin\talk 12:23, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment on edit: Considering Avenue's comments, I've altered the edit so that the ground only is somewhat de-noised and the sky has been left intact. Please update your vote if this changes your preference, though it looks like the original is in the lead anyway. Thanks, Maedin\talk 17:59, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments on the edit, please. Which do we prefer? Makeemlighter (talk) 01:44, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:360-degree Panorama of the Southern Sky edit.jpg --Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 09:46, 11 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]