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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Astronomy
•  Info The total solar eclipse of August 2017, viewed from Wyoming, USA. Created and uploaded by Msadler13, nominated by Rhododendrites. — Rhododendrites ^talk |  06:07, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Info Copying the file's description here, since it describes how the image was created: "Total solar eclipse image taken through Takahashi FS152 with a f6 focal reducer and a Canon 5D MarkIV, exposure bracketing was used in seven steps from 1/2 sec to 1/8000 sec. Image was processed in Photomatix 6 and Photoshop CC 2017."
•  Support This was one of the winners of the Wiki Science Competition in the United States. (Disclosure: I was on the local jury, though do not have any connection to the files/uploaders). — Rhododendrites ^talk |  06:07, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support - Amazing photo, IMO. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:55, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support just wow --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:17, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Uoaei1 (talk) 07:42, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Comment I've never seen pink flares before. Artificial colouring? Charles (talk) 08:58, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Though I am a bit curious about how they got the craters on the moon visible, I haven't seen that in an eclipse photo before, but I AGF for good equipment and knowhow with the exposure bracketing. Btw, this VI also has pink flares (NASA too and here), so maybe not so uncommon. --cart-Talk 09:55, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

There's a hint of of those flares/prominences in the picture I took; in some of the other ones from that sequence you can see a bit more. They were there (although of course you couldn't see them with the unaided eye). Daniel Case (talk) 15:37, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, you can clearly see the pink tint in the area of the flares in Daniel's photo. I think that settles that the flares were not colored in an artificial way. --cart-Talk 15:49, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

•  Comment Ok, found it! The pink thing is called the sun's Chromosphere and good ol' WP decribes it as only visible during a total eclipse. Also this. --cart-Talk 16:10, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Thanks all. Yes they really are pink. Weird. Charles (talk) 15:50, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

•  Support PumpkinSky talk 11:43, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Comment I've put this up at QIC. PumpkinSky talk 11:45, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 12:53, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Schnobby (talk) 14:46, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Amazing ... looks like an etching or something. Daniel Case (talk) 15:37, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Cayambe (talk) 16:17, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 18:10, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Absolutely impressing! --Basotxerri (talk) 18:16, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Basile Morin (talk) 22:18, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Bijay Chaurasia (Talk) 06:18, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 06:54, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Poco² 08:09, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 11:38, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Colin (talk) 08:57, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Pugilist (talk) 15:16, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 16:02, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support mega wow ! - Benh (talk) 19:16, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 13:56, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Ximonic (talk) 01:37, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
•  Support − Meiræ 04:25, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 25 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 14:07, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Astronomy