Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Image:NGC602.jpg

NGC 602

NGC 602 is the designation for a particular young, bright open cluster of stars located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way. Radiation and shock waves from the star cluster has pushed away much of the lighter surrounding gas and dust that compose the nebula known as N90, and this in turn has triggered new star formation in the ridges (or "elephant trunks") of the nebula. These even younger stars are still enshrouded in dust but are visible to the Spitzer Space Telescope at infrared wavelengths. A number of other, more distant galaxies also appear in the background of the image.

Proposed replacement

Reason

I really hate to do this, but this image is really not that fantastic. It's not FP material, and even while it was at FPC it was doubted that it would pass. Low quality, should be replaced with better quality edit.

Previous nomination/s

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/NGC 602

Nominator

—Sunday · (Testify!)

• Replace with edit— —Sunday · (Testify!) 14:10, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Can you be more specific about the image's shortcomings? Chick Bowen 19:22, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

* Keep No good reason to delist, wouldn't pass today is a quite frankly crappy reason to nominate an image for delisting especially if you can't back it up with how specifically it fails to achieve the current FPC standards. As a matter of thoroughness I did a second look at it and I see no reason that it should be delisted on technical grounds or anything else. Cat-five - talk 00:02, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Striking at this point since the edit takes care of the noise and the blue glare but at the cost of the entire image being greatly softened so I'm going to withhold a vote on this. Cat-five - talk 01:22, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

• Keep The partial grain removal in the edit distracts, and may have removed small details. --Janke | Talk 18:31, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Kept MER-C 10:35, 9 October 2008 (UTC)