Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Holmes Comet on 11-20-07 from san francisco.jpg

File:Holmes Comet on 11-20-07 from san francisco.jpg, not featured

Voting period ends on 16 Feb 2009 at 05:19:50

•  Info Comet Holmes is a very unusual comet. It is a w:periodic comet discovered by the British amateur astronomer w:Edwin Holmes on November 6, 1892. Although normally a very faint object, Holmes became notable during its 2007 return when it temporarily brightened by a factor of about half a million, in what was the largest known outburst by a comet, and became visible to the naked eye. At the image the comet is seen in constellation Perseus. The brightest star, which is next to the comet is Mirfak
•  Info created , uploaded and nominated by Mbz1 -- Mbz1 (talk) 05:19, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
•  Support -- Mbz1 (talk) 05:19, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose If you wouldn't say that the photo is of a comet, I wouldn't know where to draw my attention to in the first place. I mainly oppose due to lack of composition, but I could also point out some other issues such as sharpness and crushed black parts. Tiago Fioreze (talk) 08:43, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose It's little fuzzy. --ComputerHotline (talk) 10:49, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
•  Neutral--Kuvaly (talk) 12:02, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose ? Picture of tree? —kallerna™ 23:22, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose no "wow" - Man On Mission (talk) 08:31, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

result: 1 support, 4 opposes, 1 neutral => not featured (rule of the 5th day). Benh (talk) 09:06, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Alternative 1, not featured

•  Info This image was taken few weeks after the first one. The comet was fading. The white things on the image are clouds. To take an image of a comet the time exposure should be used. Of course the small wind would move the trees, and the clouds, the rotating Earth could also make the things look a little fuzzy. The idea was to show not a telescopic view of the comet as it was seen from my light-polluted backyard.
•  Support--Mbz1 (talk) 13:41, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
•  Support--Kuvaly (talk) 14:28, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
•  Support I still think it's not possible to identify that there is a comet (I was actually expecting to see a tail) in the photo. But I do like the composition of this photo. Tiago Fioreze (talk) 17:25, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

This was a very special comet. The comet was visible for few months in a row, but the tail was seen only in very strong scopes and only for few days. This is because during the comet's outburst, its orbit took it to near opposition with respect to Earth, and since comet tails point away from the Sun, Earth observers were looking nearly straight down along the tail of 17/P Holmes, making the comet appear as a bright sphere, which was kind of cool. Maybe this comet did not look as a comet, but it did look as UFO --Tryitbot (talk) 21:15, 8 February 2009 (UTC) aka user:Mbz1

•  Support /Daniel78 (talk) 00:45, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose The story is interesting. The composition is much less interesting. Crapload (talk) 08:32, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose Second that. Lycaon (talk) 10:02, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
•  Support FP JukoFF (talk) 12:20, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose not impressive enough - Man On Mission (talk) 08:34, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

result: 5 supports, 3 opposes, 0 neutral => not featured. Benh (talk) 09:07, 19 February 2009 (UTC)