Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/NGC 1097 - 2nd nomination

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Original – The galaxy NGC 1097

Reason: Received 4.5 support votes and 0 oppose votes in the previous attempt. Lede image in the NGC 1097 article.
Articles in which this image appears: NGC 1097, Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out
Creator: European Southern Observatory

Support as nominator – ↠Pine (✉) 07:36, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Question Are the galaxy's spiral arms slightly cut off? The one on the left seems to loop back into the shot. Nick-D (talk) 08:00, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Nick-D: I agree that a slightly wider crop would be better, but there are no other images in the Commons category at commons:Category:NGC 1097 that have a similar level of size and clarity and are nearly true color. I think that the closest alternative to this image in regards to quality is the decidedly "false" colored File:Coiled Galaxy.jpg. ↠Pine (✉) 08:10, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - Very fuzzy and noisy in full size, appears to be upsampled, also blown higlights in center. This mirror image (do we know which one is correct?) is much better: [[1]] - --Janke | Talk 22:19, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - needs a wider field of view. The "noise" is actually part of the galaxy (these areas have a low projected area density of stars) - the real noise characteristics of the image are seen on the bottom right. I don't think it is reasonable to observe this galaxy in whole without blowing out/saturating the center. MER-C 20:39, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- I beg to disagree. IMO, it looks like upsampled thermal noise of the sensor. Compare with the original-sized mirror image linked above! --Janke | Talk 22:03, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose because (although showing only a much narrower field of view) File:NGC 1097 center Hubble.jpg shows how a much better image of the same subject is possible. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:14, 7 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:48, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]