Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hubble 01.jpg

Hubble Space Telescope (27946391011).jpg

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Original – The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) begins its separation from Space Shuttle Discovery following its release on mission STS-82.

Alternate 1 – Higher resolution version of the original nom, 1997.

Alternate 2 – Sharper and more detailed photo, 2009.

Alternate 3 – With earth in background, relatively sharp image, 2009.

Reason

It may not be the sharpest image of the Hubble Space Telescope in the world, but the timing of the photograph as well as the scientific importance of the subject may make it go down as being historically valuable. There are plenty of other photographs of the space telescope, but I thought they (or at least most of them) looked static or uninteresting. Unlike those images, this one features the object floating above the blue and cloudy atmosphere of the Earth. It is at least in focus, with a few stars being faintly visible (though that may be the camera static instead).

Articles in which this image appears

Hubble Space Telescope, spacecraft, 1990s, and others

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Understanding

Creator

NASA

• Nominator – FreeMediaKid! 00:59, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
• Original nom image is below 1500px minimum resolution. There is a higher resolution version of it in Alternate 1. I also introduced a much sharper and detailed Alternate 2, it is a 2009 photo so presumably it includes any upgrades since the 1997 original nom. We also have Alternate 3 which is relatively sharp. Bammesk (talk) 02:51, 15 April 2020 (UTC) . . . I prefer and support Alt 2 for its details, and support Alt 1 and Alt 3 as well. Bammesk (talk) 03:53, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

• Alt 1 looks like it might be upsampled? I'm not sure it has any more detail than the original, and maybe less. TSP (talk) 20:54, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

• TSP, zooming really in and to the same size, Alt 1 has more detail than the original, for instance in the shadow areas. One can derive the original nom image from Alt 1, but not vice versa. Neither image is finely detailed though. Bammesk (talk) 01:07, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

• Support Alternate 2 for sharper photo. --Gnosis (talk) 05:33, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
• I added the Alt 2 image to two articles: STS-125 and Astrophotography. This is the camera that gives us lots of FPs! Bammesk (talk) 01:07, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 01:03, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

• None of the images has enough support for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 01:03, 25 April 2020 (UTC)