Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:018 Human looking at the stars during Perseids with the Milky Way in the background Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Astronomy#Sky
•  Info created & uploaded by Giles Laurent - nominated by Tomer T -- Tomer T (talk) 17:28, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support -- Tomer T (talk) 17:28, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support Thank you for the nomination! --Giles Laurent (talk) 17:34, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --Thi (talk) 18:26, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support ★ 18:31, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support Excellent, and please don't try to reduce the noise, it's perfect as it is and that would only reduce detail Cmao20 (talk) 18:51, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 19:22, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support -- Radomianin (talk) 20:09, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Question What are those coloured points of light in the dark parts of the picture? Looks as if the starry sky continues there.--Ermell (talk) 20:13, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

  It's just noise from the high ISO. It was needed because it was very dark, even at f/1.4. Giles Laurent (talk) 20:19, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

•  Support These pictures are difficult to take, and the noise of this one was rather well managed compared to the previous FP in the same gallery. Silhouettes are also interesting in the composition. Still a question: why only 8 seconds? -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:57, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

  Thank you ! 8 seconds was the maximum exposure I could use before having star trails appearing on the image. I wanted it for the stars to look natural and not with a trail from the movement. Also, at longer exposure the shooting stars appearing on the picture would look more faded as it only lasts a very small period of time (probably something between 0.1 and 0.5 second). Giles Laurent (talk) 09:12, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

  There is a way to calculate the best exposure time when you don't want startrails at COM:PT#Star trails, but a bit of trial and error works too. --Cart (talk) 10:38, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

  Thank you for the information. The 500 rule does not take into account the high resolution. Higher resolution creates more star trail. At 50MP, the recommended exposure time with a 24mm lense on a full frame body is 8.6 seconds according to a calculator I just found online. That also confirms what I observed when I took pictures with exposure higher than 8 seconds and where I felt that the stars looked less like dots. Giles Laurent (talk) 11:06, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

•  Support --Schnobby (talk) 09:24, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --Cart (talk) 10:38, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support per Cmao20 and Basile. --Aristeas (talk) 10:56, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support Ermell (talk) 22:06, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 10:12, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --Laitche (talk) 11:09, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 13:33, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --Harlock81 (talk) 19:50, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support JukoFF (talk) 20:35, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 06:39, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 12:19, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --Tournasol7 (talk) 14:09, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 20 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 21:12, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Astronomy#Sky