Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Solar eclips 1999 4 NR.jpg

Solar eclips 1999 4 NR.jpg[edit]

Promotion discussion: Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Solar eclips 1999 4.jpg

Reason: The image is blocky and blurry, there exist countless of jpeg artifacts. the colors are rather strange, it has many overbright spots, and I can see many flying blocks over the moon!
Nominator: _→AzaToth

Delist — _→AzaToth 17:09, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep That is an excellent picture of a solar eclipse. --¿Why 1 9 9 1 ^{ESP. | Sign Here} 04:30, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delist The corona is a veritable artifact feast. ~ trialsanderrors 08:01, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This was promoted only a 4 months ago with almost unanimous support. It must have been exceptionally hard to take, and I feel it is well worthy of FP status --Fir0002 08:39, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment It must have been hard to get the timing right (the sun's corona can be seen all around the edges). | AndonicO ^{Talk | Sign Here} 12:29, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Strong delist. It's a shame that such an excellent shot has to be delisted but the artifacts in the corona are really just too much --⁪froth^{T C} 22:20, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep- An exceptional photo of an event that is hard to capture and doesn't come around too often. Imaninjapirate^{talk to me} 18:46, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep just imagine trying to take this pic! Look as you can see the sun's corona around the whole part of the moon, the timing is perfect. — Arjun 15:17, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This picture is amazing!! You should keep it as featured. Daniel10 21:38, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep I love this photo. It terrifically captures a fascinating natural phenomenal like few others. It definitely should remain an FP. Ackatsis 02:23, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep An incredible photograph that embodies the spirit of the Feature Picture. S h a r k f a c e 2 1 7 08:19, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep There is no other also good image to illustrate such a technical subject ;-) --Luc Viatour 00:48, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep In reference to the original complaints: Blurriness is largely a symptom of difficult-to-improve faults in the camera and/or the diffraction limit. What you are calling JPEG artifacts are probably also diffraction and/or sensor noise, the "strange colors" are actually correct, and overbright spots? come on, it's the sun! This is a very technically challenging photograph which is about as well executed as could be expected. —Dgies^t c 20:37, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
For comparison, here is the flickr "most interesting" list for "solar eclipse". ~ trialsanderrors 00:36, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep Dgies said it well. What subject could have more difficult lighting conditions than an eclipse, with the contrast between the ultimate light source and the darkest of shadows, while the photographer is in the shadow. It's hard to claim that any 'strange' phenomenon in the photo could have been eliminated with a different process or equipment, and even so you would have to wait a long long time for the next eclipse to find out. ~~--207.38.206.107 04:12, 3 January 2007 (UTC)~~ --Bridgecross 04:12, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per above keepers. I personally really like this photo. Yuser31415 04:55, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kept as Featured Picture Raven4x4x 04:52, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]