Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/High Resolution Solar Spectrum

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[edit] High Resolution Solar Spectrum

Extremely high resolution spectrum of the Sun showing thousands of elemental absorption lines

Reason: This image is just incredible. Very Encyclopedic and eye-pleasing.
Articles this image appears in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectroscopy
Creator: National Optical Astronomy Observatory/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy/National Science Foundation
Nominator: PYMontpetit

Support — PYMontpetit 00:10, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Weak Support Although there seems to be some jpeg artifacting, and I'd personally like it if it were at all possible to make all of the lines 100% clear, this is pretty encyclopedic and I like it very much. Joe 01:26, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Support - Compression artifacts are minor and mitigated by the huge resolution. The vertical lines are supposed to be fuzzy: that is the width of the absorption line. —Dgies^t c 03:55, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
questions 1) is it a photo or an illustration? 2) for each row, is one end redder than the other, i.e. is is really just a one dimensional function of frequency, broken into several rows, or does the y-axis correspond to some measurement parameter? Debivort 05:13, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
weak support - what makes the image interesting (the absorption lines) is not what makes the image attractive (the simple spectrum). Plus, I think the breaking of it into rows (while reasonable) will confuse people, as it is not obvious which way the spectrum goes - right to left or left to right. I agree it should be downsampled for a final version. Debivort 21:10, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
1. It is a synthesized image taken from observational data. Sunlight is fed into a glorified prism and that produces a very detailed rainbow, which is then arranged in 40 or sow rows to fit in a nice rectangle.
2. For each row, left-to right represents increasing frequency (and subtle color change). The Y-axis is used to stack what would otherwise be an absurdly wide and short image into a more reasonable size. Going from top to bottom gives rows of increasing frequency. Ideally, each individual row would show no top-bottom variation, but there are artifacts. —Dgies^t c 05:25, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Support. Rad.--ragesoss 06:49, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Comment This looks better when shrunk to my screen size than in actual size, where it looks like it's run through a motion blur. ~ trialsanderrors 07:47, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Support Attractive and scientific. Neato. --Bridgecross 14:37, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Support. High enc, and eyecatching color, for some reason... Could be downsampled to 50%, even 30%. --Janke | Talk 17:35, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Support per above. --Andrew c 19:16, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Support. This is generated by a scan or photo of an analog phenomenon, don't expect clarity --⁪froth^T 22:23, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Support- high quality, amazing, aesthetically pleasing, eye-catching, encyclopedic. Jorcoga Yell! 13:04, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Support Everything Jorcoga said, really. It's a great picture. S h a r k f a c e 2 1 7 05:07, 19 January 2007 (UTC)