Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sun, Earth size comparison labeled

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[edit] Image:Sun, Earth size comparison labeled.jpg

The sun and the earth.
Size comparison only. The Earth and Sun are approximately 150 gigameters (1AU) or around 107 suns apart.

Without text

Not for voting. The Earth and moon, shown to scale including correct relative distance.

An amazing picture of the sun and the earth. The thing that I like the most is that you can get a fealing of size and scale in the solar system when you look at how tiny the earth looks besides it. It really gives you a sense of Humility. Really informative in my opinion.

It appears in the Sun article and was created by brian0918 with NASA images.

• Nominate and support. - Nnfolz 00:13, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
• Abstain. I threw this image together really quickly, but it conveys exactly what I wanted it to. There is also a version without text, if anyone thinks that is preferable. — BRIAN0918 • 2006-08-20 03:22
• Oppose Not very visualy pleasing to me. It is a "rough" comparison as said on the image's description page. Is there an extended caption for it? --WillMak050389 03:29, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
  • I don't know why I wrote "rough comparison". It's as accurate as you can get given the finite size of a pixel. — BRIAN0918 • 2006-08-20 04:58
    • I agree that this is very informative, and assuming it is correctly scaled, which it looks to be, but FDeatured pictures should not just be informative, but also visually pleasing. Per Davepape below, I think this image could use a little cleanup visually before it is a FP. --WillMak050389 15:36, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
• Weak support (Version with label). I like the pic, but I'm uneasy that the relative distance between the sun and earth shown is wrong without making any sort of clarification that artistic license has been applied. I would remove the "Weak" from my vote if some sort of caption could be added making it clear that the earth is in fact ~107 sun-diameters (1 AU) from the sun. --Billpg 10:42, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

  Comment The image clearly states that is a size comparison, not a distance representation.Nnfolz 17:31, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

  • Oppose (No label version). At thumb scale, the earth is lost. It looks just like a picture of the sun. --Billpg 10:42, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
• Comment. The Moon's orbit has this image. Image:Earth-Moon.png --Billpg 10:51, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
• Support (label only). Very encyclopedia-ic, and just makes you think! --Thelb⁴ 11:05, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
• Support stronger support if some clarification is added per Billpg. Very informative, we need more images like this to convey these concepts to the average reader. --Nebular110 15:10, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose. I'm concerned that the license may not be correct. The sun image is from SOHO [1]. Because of ESA's involvement, SOHO images don't generally fall in the "NASA PD" class, as noted in the commons' PD-USGov-NASA license. [2] states that they're only free for non-commercial use. Also, the images don't fit together very well visually (for an FP). --Davepape 18:44, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Regarding your 2nd point: Are we trying to make it look like the Earth is actually right next to the Sun, or are we trying to convey a size comparison? I'm sure it would be pretty easy to make the Earth fit in better with the image, but I didn't think that was the point of the image. — BRIAN0918 • 2006-08-20 19:39
    • Even for a non-realistic diagram, the elements should be visually consistent, and to me the Earth and Sun look too dissimilar and pasted together. I think it would work better as a diagram if the Sun were cleaned up to remove the "glow" and background stars (keeping the flare, as a size comparison of that is good); then maybe the jarring pastedness of the Earth wouldn't be a problem. Of course, it'd still need a freely license Sun image. --Davepape 05:22, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
• Comment If there is a licensing issue with this particular image of the Sun, I have one I took in 1999 I could upload. It's decent quality but doesn't show solar flares. It does show some sunspots, which might make for an interesting comparison with Earth; I'd bet one or two of the spots are bigger than the Earth. -- Moondigger 20:45, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
• Support version with caption, as long as the image is indeed factually correct and the copyright is valid; this image is highly informative. --Tewy 22:52, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
• Support Version with caption. Agree with Tewy --Fir0002 12:04, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
• Support one with caption/. cool, informative, good pic. -Ravedave ^{help name my baby} 19:32, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
• Support no text version. I like it better. TomStar81 22:11, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
• oppose. Somethign just looks wrong with the picture. It looks to me that the earth is within the outer reaches of the sun. I know it doesn't represent their distance appart, but something still seems off to me about the Earth's location.

Promoted Image:Sun, Earth size comparison labeled.jpg Raven4x4x 04:08, 28 August 2006 (UTC)