Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Nebulosa de Eta Carinae o NGC 3372.jpg

File:Nebulosa de Eta Carinae o NGC 3372.jpg, featured

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Info View of the Carina Nebula taken from the Astronomy Observatory of Los Molinos (OALM) (es) located in Montevideo, Uruguay. Please, note that on the contrary to most of our FPs listed here, this is not the work of the NASA or ESO, but of an Uruguayan Commonist thank to a project of Wikimedia Uruguay with several institutes in that country, who took the picture and processed it by himself. The result has nothing to envy to the works of space agencies in my opinion, that's what amazed me and motivates this FPC. The picture is based on 9 frames of 2 minutes exposure each with a Nikon Df and a catadioptric Nikkor 500mm f/8 lense, apart from the dark, bias and flat frames for the post-processing. For the post-processing a dedicated software for this kind of photography (PixInsight) was used that merges the images, analyses the brightness scale, reduces the noise and enables the management of saturation and dynamic range. Created by Fernando da Rosa and Asterismo (Santiago Roland, coordinator of OALM) - uploaded by Fernando da Rosa - nominated by Poco a poco -- Poc o² 10:01, 12 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Poc o² 10:01, 12 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wow. 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 11:48, 12 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support --LivioAndronico talk 15:56, 12 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Great work, awesome results. --Kadellar (talk) 17:12, 12 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- ChristianFerrer 08:36, 13 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Uoaei1 (talk) 11:42, 13 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support --fedaro (talk) 11:55, 13 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 20:06, 13 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Halavar (talk) 17:35, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Rangelo (talk) 10:23, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 01:52, 17 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 11 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Poc o² 11:08, 19 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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