Looks innocuous enough at first glance right? Let’s zoom in on the problem:
These don’t go together. If the semicircle on the left is correct, then this is showing moon phases, and the symbol on the right should be of a gibbous moon:
If the cookie-with-a-bite-taken-out in the right is correct, then this is showing an eclipse, and the symbol on the left should be of a 50% partial eclipse:
It drives me crazy every time I look at it.
Turn them round.
I’m not sure I understand. Like put them in the lathe and smooth the points out?
He thinks the problem is that they’re in the wrong order when the problem is that they’re the wrong shape.
Although now that I look at it I think the different colors are supposed to represent shadow and moon, not just moon.
Different colors? They’re all monochrome gold, if it looks like different colors that’s just reflections from light in the room
Yeah, I was pondering if it’d be possible to make it less of an issue. I presume the metal of the discs and chain is pretty thin, so you could get to work with tin snips, a file and some needle-nose pliers. Take them off, rework some and hang them back up. However, a) I’m not sure it could be done satisfactorily and b) that sounds like a lot of hassle for some, hopefully, cheap knickknack, so I’d probably just make it have an accident.
They seem like cheap plated metal, any alterations are going to wind up flaking and looking terrible
Accident it is then.
That’s not the issue. The artist has decided that the cutout is the shadow, and just made ot “move across” the moon. This is now how light hitting the moon looks from Earth.
@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works may I suggest pretending you are looking at it from the perspective of an asteroid 30 degrees “above Earth” and circling us. That would make it accurateish.
Everything is perspective.
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Clearly this is from the point of view of a planet with 13 separate individual moons, 11 of which are experiencing an eclipse just at the moment.
I see the problem, but I doubt many would. No easy fix, but you could go two directions. Replace the one wrong shape and rearrange them, or just replace one of the open circles with a solid and rearrange them to represent an eclipse (with solid on the outside, hollow in the middle.
I get how an astronomy fan would get annoyed. I’ve gotten gifts before that have had a slight inaccuracy to it, so small I didn’t even catch it the first time I saw it. And now I can’t unsee it. I still appreciated them though. And yes, I had in a few instances considered if I could fix the issue, but sometimes it’s better to just accept it as is. Nothing is perfect, after all.
Eclipses do not have a semicircular phase. It’s wrong as lunar phases, and it’s wrong as an ecliptic transit.
Remove those cursed half circles and you’ve got yourself a nice annular solar eclipse!
My wife bought a candle with a label stating “I’m glad you’re as weird as me.”
I try to avoid being the grammar police in general, but it’s right in front of where my eyes usually go when I pee, so it’s hard to ignore.
