Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Australia Telescope Compact Array

Australia Telescope Compact Array

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Original – "Five antennas of the Australia Telescope Compact Array, near Narrabri, NSW. This photograph was taken in the late phase of the construction process (~1984). This is a long exposure photo taken in darkness late evening. During the exposure, the photographer walked around the dishes firing off over 130 flashes using a hand held flash gun. Obituary of photographer with description of this image's technical hurdles" -- description from the file page on Commons

ALT – cleaned up shaded patches in sky

Reason

Seems to be the best photo that we have of this subject, and the photo itself has some historic value

Articles in which this image appears

Australia Telescope Compact Array

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Understanding

Creator

Original by John Masterson, CSIRO; edited by Thennicke

• Support as nominator – Pine^✉ 19:59, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

• Support as nominator, either original or alt 1, prefer alt 1. --Pine^✉ 01:07, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

• Support - Noise is acceptable, given the age. Very well done. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:01, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

  @Crisco 1492: Could you check the alt, and update your !vote? Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:43, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

  Support goes for both. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 04:40, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

• Comment – I want to support, but the blue sky has these shades of darker and lighter patches, they are easier to discern by spanning the image across the screen at full resolution. Any thoughts about removing them in software? Bammesk (talk) 19:47, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

• Support ALT and original – I prefer ALT. I cleaned up the patches. (if you disagree, just revert) Bammesk (talk) 23:53, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

• Question I can see the image has been reverted back to the original by "Colin", advising he will take the discussion to a "talk page", but I cannot find that discussion on his or Bammesk's talk page - any idea why this was reverted? gazhiley 17:55, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

• Discussion is happening on Commons:File talk:CSIRO ScienceImage 3881 Five Antennas at Narrabri.jpg --Pine^✉ 01:25, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

• Cheers Pine... gazhiley 10:41, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

• Comment – Per the discussion [1] and User:Colin, I uploaded a higher quality alternate (and amended my vote). Bammesk (talk) 04:39, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

• I uploaded a cleaner ALT. Looking at the focal point reflectors, the primary light source is ambient. The 130 flashes seem to be fill light for base pedestals. Bammesk (talk) 03:39, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

• Support Alt gazhiley 10:51, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
• Support Alt – Jobas (talk) 13:22, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Promoted File:CSIRO ScienceImage 3881 Five Antennas at Narrabri - restoration1.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:47, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

• Only the alt has enough support for promotion.
  Added image to Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Others instead. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:47, 9 February 2016 (UTC)