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File:ALMA and a Starry Night.jpg, featured

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Info This panoramic view of Chajnantor shows the antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) against a breathtaking starry night sky.
Info created by ESO/B. Tafreshi - uploaded by Jmencisom - nominated by Beria -- Béria Lima ^msg 13:43, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Béria Lima ^msg 13:43, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support- nice Peter23 (talk) 14:39, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support—B-E-A-UTIFUL—Kelvinsong (talk) 17:07, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral The image quality is, unfortunately, far from perfect. The chromatic aberration effects are clearly visible on the edges of the telescopes, and the noise is very obvious. CA affects also the stars - each gets different colours on the left and right sides. It would be nice to develop the RAW file again and mitigate these problems. I think, that the noise can be reduced. Correction of the CA could make the stars appear more bright and clear. It would also be nice to have the EXIF data... Regarding the subject - it is brilliant! I always dreamed to shoot a photo like this, but... This is REALLY HARD, since you must have good lens and camera, prevent them from getting wet, control battery charge, use manual focusing and long exposure; stars are moving on the sky, so you should use high ISO setting. And it is usually terribly cold at night, especially at such altitude. I really would like to say, that the photo is great, but it should be improved. --Ximeg (talk) 17:35, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Info Photo could be used now. But what programs are use Curiosity opetation command for resample their realy focal distorted multi photos? --Kirill Borisenko (talk) 04:51, 13 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose -- Sorry but image quality is just not enough. In some areas one cannot say what is noise and what is a star. Alvesgaspar (talk) 18:23, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment I think it is the unavoidable doom of every dark sky image...--93.144.68.161 07:58, 11 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment WOW! --93.144.68.161 22:31, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Agree with Alvesgaspar.--Jebulon (talk) 23:28, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Update levels, contrast and gamma. Now image could be used. --Kirill Borisenko (talk) 04:47, 13 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Very cool! Michael Barera (talk) 02:43, 15 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support— M♦Zaplotnik ^{my contributions} 17:03, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Poco a poco (talk) 10:47, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Quality looks fine to me. Looks visually interesting. Compeition looks nice. --LauraHale (talk) 03:52, 19 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Looks great to me russavia (talk) 06:10, 19 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 9 support, 2 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /A.Savin 15:29, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Panoramas