Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/NGC 1999

NGC 1999

Reason

I've had my eye on this for a while. It provides excellent EV for a reflection nebula, even showing the tint of its reflection. Otherwise, high res. and enticing.

Articles this image appears in

Star, NGC 1999, Herschel 400 Catalogue

Creator

Hubble Space Telescope

• Support as nominator --—Ceran [ speak ] 21:47, 16 December 2008 (UTC) [reply]
• Need to fix the caption, I suspect it's a bit more than 1500 miles away. :) --Golbez (talk) 08:57, 17 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment Caption is fixed per the image source. What wavelength/frequency is the source if its false colour?
  talk) 10:31, 17 December 2008 (UTC)[reply
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• Actually, source says nothing about false coloring. I've removed that bit from the caption. —Ceran [ speak ] 13:04, 17 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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