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Event Horizon Telescope and Apollo 16

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Original – A series of images representing the magnification achieved by the Event Horizon Telescope. The top-left image approximates a human eye view from Earth. Each successive image (moving counter-clockwise) is magnified ~19.3x, closing-in on the position of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) of Apollo 16, and ending with the black hole image at almost exactly one-billion-power magnification relative to the first image.
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Image demonstrates the incredible magnification achieved by the subject of the article. Image is a composite of 7 other free-use images, with no alternations other than cropping, rotation, and scaling as appropriate for the zoom step. Image is sufficiently high resolution to see many of the larger features of each step in the red box of the previous step.
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Event Horizon Telescope
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Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Space/Looking_out
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Codehydro
  • Support as nominator – —CodeHydro 01:24, 3 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - I don't think this illustrates the magnification well enough to be featured. Besides, the image of the rover is incongruous with the rest of the series. --Janke | Talk 16:23, 3 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose – Per Janke. Confusing montage. – Sca (talk) 12:50, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - The montage actually zooms into the actual position of the Apollo 16 Rover, which is the exact same rover being featured in that image you're calling incongruous. There is no higher magnification available of the step before that one. I used the highest resolution image available of the Apollo 16 site from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, the newest orbiter around the moon by NASA. Sure, the picture with the astronaut isn't bird's eye like the rest, but I'd say showing the astronaut better demonstrates the magnification because it gives a familiar size to compare: the size of a human. —CodeHydro 15:43, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • If you think about it, the fact that a satellite from moon-orbit can barely resolve a 10-foot long rover while the Event Horizon Telescope's image of the black hold was effectively equivalent to resolving a tennis-ball-sized object on the moon from Earth makes the black hole image even more impressive. —CodeHydro 15:55, 4 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 07:23, 13 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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