Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Iridiumi satelliidi sähvatus.jpg

File:Iridiumi satelliidi sähvatus.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Astronomy
•  Info created and uploaded by Martin Mark - nominated by Kruusamägi (talk) 19:22, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Kruusamägi (talk) 19:22, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Code (talk) 19:47, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - This looks great at full-page size. I'd love it if the graininess could be decreased, though. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:39, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 21:01, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 21:11, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support And what Ikan says. w.carter-Talk 21:16, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Quote: "almost all sunsets are aesthetically pleasing, and most such pictures are not in essence different from others". A pretty picture, but that's it. BTW Based on the shutter speed and the pixelated edge, I can conclude that shooting star is a fake. --The Photographer (talk) 04:15, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

I wouldn't mind seeing that trail/shooting star cloned out myself. INeverCry 05:04, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

•  Comment - I probably wouldn't support the picture being featured without the meteor. If it's not real, almost the entire specialness of the photo is gone for me. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:52, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

• The picture is called "Iridium satellite twinkling", so I guess not a meteor and not fake. You can go online and see when and where satellites or even the International Space Station will be visible in the sky as the sun reflects on them and this is how they usually look in the rather brief moment you see them. The sunset is most likely a byproduct of taking a photo of the satellite passing. See below. w.carter-Talk 06:22, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

• Right. I should have paid more attention to that. So strike my previous comments. :-) -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:34, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

• I should also not be calling this a "sunset", my mistake, since the timestamp says almost midnight and the info on the file page "moonlit". The moonlight can sometimes create what looks like a sunset on long exposures during the bright nights this far north. w.carter-Talk 06:45, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your clarification User:W.carter --The Photographer (talk) 14:36, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

•  weak support A bit grainy but still very good. Btw., @ The Photographer, INeverCry, Ikan Kekek, apparently this is not a shooting star/meteor but a satellite. --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 06:25, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

  I guess there's no cloning out the thing the image's named for... INeverCry 06:54, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

To The Photographer: this image has nothing to do with the sunset as is eminent from the metadata. And this isn't a falling star. As described in the description it is a Iridium satellite. And even the composition isn't random. It is well know when and where will those flashes occur and photographer was there on the spot waiting for it. All is captured on the image. And as W.carter pointed out there is also possible to capture ISS on a photo, then here is an image from the same author depicting just that. Kruusamägi (talk) 08:28, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

Yes, I see, thanks --The Photographer (talk) 14:39, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

•  Neutral Good idea and composition, still the grainy sky keeps me from supporting. The image looks altogether oversharpened, which might be the cause for the pixelating look of the flare. Could you put up a less sharpened version? --Kreuzschnabel 08:59, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support − Meiræ 23:03, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 03:13, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Support If you have this image, it's going to be grainy by virtue of being a long exposure. Daniel Case (talk) 04:14, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Kitsch. --Karelj (talk) 19:54, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment I applied a selective denoise without affecting the stars of heaven and image quality in general --The Photographer (talk) 23:48, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

•  Comment - Thank you. Good improvement. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:39, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

it was difficult remove this noise because on 90% cases there is information inner the noise. You are welcome --The Photographer (talk) 01:25, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

•  Support Nice capture of a satellite in twilight! Hans Erren (talk) 21:11, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 11 support, 2 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /INeverCry 22:42, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Astronomy