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File:Transit Of Mercury, May 9th, 2016.png, not featured[edit]

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Transit of Mercury on May 9, 2016
  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Astronomy
  •  Info created by Elijah Mathews - uploaded by Elijah.mathews - nominated by PlanetUser -- PlanetUser (talk) 06:20, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- PlanetUser (talk) 06:20, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment - The information is great and the picture is a very good ground capture. However, I'm not sure a feature would be justified. If, for example, NASA took a better photo, it would be in the public domain and should be featured instead of this one. Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:07, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Per Ikan. And, frankly, I am not wowed by this image. Yes, I know what it is an image of. But I challenge you to imagine a viewer with little, if any, astronomical knowledge put in the position of seeing this image and telling you what it is. They would see "a dull yellow ball on a black background with some small black dots on it" And even after you told them what it was an image of, I would bet that they would not be able to identify which of the small black dots visible is Mercury without blowing the picture up to full size (Try it yourself ... you may well pick the sunspot cluster).

    Frankly, I think, full-disc pictures of the sun during inner-planet transits are not as featurable as those that show a portion of the disc with the planet more obvious to the eye, especially near the limb, like this from the transit of Venus a couple of years back. And transits of Mercury are also not as rare as transits of Venus, depriving this image of any claim to historical value (Now, someday, NASA will get that mission done where one of the Mars surface craft will be able to shoot a picture of Earth in transit (unfortunately, barring some way of uploading ourselves to Commons or other transhumanist life-extension projects, I do not think anyone presently here will be around to !vote on that one). Daniel Case (talk) 02:09, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

What I meant was the next such transit of Earth visible from Mars does not take place until 2084. That's 68 years, man ... Prince could be reborn today and live his whole life over again, and he still wouldn't get to be here to see a picture like that. Daniel Case (talk) 21:24, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Understood. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:48, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 1 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /INeverCry 22:45, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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