Mon phase from the wrong direction ( Suunto Ocean)
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The new moon phase watch face fills up from the left- and it’s simply wrong. This isn’t a mechanical watch with a moon display built in. Change the direction from the right to left and make it more logical please.
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It actually goes both ways and it is correct. After the nearest full moon on August 9 it will change direction.
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@kriskus The moon - in the northern hemisphere - appears to grow from right to left, i.e. waxing moon could easily and more logically appear from the right side of the screen and keep growing to the left. At full moon, the whole screen should be covered. When it’s waning, it should start to disappear from the right and end to the new moon phase after a waning crescent where there’s only a small part of the moon visible in the left side of the screen.
Ideally, this could also be simulated on basis of your actual GPS position, but let’s get the basics right first.
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@teemulehtinen Can you upload a picture? I don’t have an Ocean, but it looks correct on my Vertical. I have a feeling it may have to do with which part of the icon you perceive as the moon itself. If your watch face has a black background, then the moon is depicted as the white filled in area. This could be confusing as it leaves a black area that also looks like a moon, but waxing and waning incorrectly. If the watch face has a white background (is there a “contrary” option for the AMOLED screens?), then the colors are reversed and the moon is represented as the filled in black area to match the fonts.
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@duffman19 So here it is. I haven’t seen how it looks when it a waxing crescent, but logic says the crescent should come from the right side of the watch face and the start filling up to the left instead of moving from left to right which only really works when you have a waxing gibbous as it is now. That’s my issue with this watch face. It’s the wrong way around.
Think of it like this, where Moon is the white bit. That is how it should be shown:
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@teemulehtinen Gotcha. I was mistaken and thought you were talking about the moon phase complication. Now I see you were remarking about the “Lunar” watch face and I see what you mean. I didn’t even realize that watch face was dynamic and updated in that way.
To me, it looks like the designers made the image of the full moon shift from left to right (like you’ve noticed) as the moon phase changes. This does work in a way as it preserves the outer arc of the moon - on the right as it is waxing, and on the left as it wanes. And this is probably the easiest way to program the watch face as it only involves shifting one image across the face.
Obviously it might look better if the outside edge of the moon remained along the outside edge of the watch face. However, this would involve having a different image for each phase (~28 images). Or they could overlay a black circle that correctly shifts from right to left, revealing more moon while waxing and covering more while waning.
I suppose those options are a bit more complicated than the route they chose. But, I agree with you. The implementation they chose is a bit confusing and could be better.