Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/NGC 1999

NGC 1999

Original - Color image of reflection nebula NGC 1999. The nebula is filled with dust; this dust then shines from the light of the variable star V380. This nebula is located 1,500 light-years from Earth and its star is located in the constellation Orion.

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)
• Need to fix the caption, I suspect it's a bit more than 1500 miles away. :) --Golbez (talk) 08:57, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
• Comment Caption is fixed per the image source. What wavelength/frequency is the source if its false colour? Noodle snacks (talk) 10:31, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

• Actually, source says nothing about false coloring. I've removed that bit from the caption. —Ceran [ speak ] 13:04, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Not promoted --Noodle snacks (talk) 11:13, 27 December 2008 (UTC)