Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/17th century star map

A celestial map from the 17th century, by the Dutch cartographer Frederik de Wit.

detail (2x)

detail (2x) of existing FP Carta Marina

Support — Janke | Talk 18:33, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Oppose — I love these sorts of old maps/starmaps but even at 1804 × 1236 pixels, it is still not high enough resolution for the detail to be visible, sorry. —Pengo 22:50, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Oppose ack Pengo.--HereToHelp 03:59, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
- Comment: Unfortunately, the reproduction I've scanned from is only about 8 x 12 inches in size, and doesn't show any more detail than in this scan. If anyone has a better original, pleace replace. --Janke | Talk 08:39, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Oppose I feel kinda bad opposing for resolution when it's 1804x1236px, but there isn't enough detail to be able to read some of the text. ShadowHalo 23:51, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
- Well, you can't really read the small print on the existing FP "Carta Marina" [1], either, even though it's over 5000 px wide... --Janke | Talk 06:50, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  - I can read just about all of the text pretty easily, and the major captions are larger and clearly visible. I think it's more of a problem that I can't read the names of the planets (I'm presuming that's what they are based on the corresponding symbols) in the center-top circle. ShadowHalo 06:11, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 05:15, 17 March 2007 (UTC)