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.
Bright eyes 🎶
As I’m reading this I’m sitting in my bathroom staring at the shower curtain my wife picked out which has an equally infuriating moon illustration…
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.
Would changing its name to “eclipse decoration” make it less infuriating?
Then the half eclipse would be wrong, 50% eclipse wouldn’t be a straight line across the diameter. An eclipse is two circles intersecting, not shadow sweeping across a sphere.
Considering that semi-circles are not part of an eclipse, no.
Remove those cursed half circles and you’ve got yourself a nice annular solar eclipse!
I mean without the quarter moons it works for an eclipse… kinda… just gotta reverse the order on everything starting from the middle? and replace one of the hollows (eclipses/news) with another one of the fulls?
If you are concerned more with how the jewelry looks, I honestly like how it’s made better. more metal in the center. but I am with you on “it should be right I do not like that it is wrong” and I’d love if they had both options.
If the wife likes it, mission accomplished!
Just take a chill pill man.
How right, I should limit my neurotic nitpicking to appropriate spaces.
No complaints here; I just want the wife’s to be happy.
My wife had a very stressful and demanding job that paid well. I sacrificed my career advancement so she could pursue this dream. After a few years she burned out, was miserable, and wanted to quit to find a new job. However this came with a huge pay cut too which made the decision more difficult and I was (hopefully understandably) frustrated because I had made all of these sacrifices so she could follow her dream.
But I wanted her to be happy so we figured it out.
Moral of this story? Since then I’ve learned how much truth there is to the “happy wife, happy life” idiom.
Sorry to hear it didn’t work out as planned for the two of you.
IMHO, relationships should not be about one persons happiness/goals/etc over the other (i.e. wives are not more important than husbands or vice versa). The item mentioned in the original post isn’t going to change anything in their lives (other than bringing one of them a bit of joy).
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.
