Everyone has seen a huge moon sitting low over the horizon and reached for a camera, and everyone has been disappointed by the photograph.
The camera is right. The moon is the same size in the sky whether it is on the horizon or overhead, and you can prove it by holding a small coin at arm's length against both.
What is remarkable is that after more than two thousand years of people writing about this, there is still no agreed explanation. Aristotle had a theory. So did Ptolemy. Modern researchers have several, involving distance cues and how the brain models the sky, and none of them commands agreement.
It is one of the oldest open questions in perception, and it happens above your head most months.
The wolf and the moon is the most reproduced pairing in the category. It is worth carrying one detail about it that most people do not have.
An open crescent rather than a full disc. The wolf sits at the lower horn in profile, head thrown back to howl into the gap, and a pentacle is set into the arm of the moon behind it, with branching linework filling the rest of the curve.
Stainless steel, single style, so there is nothing to weigh up but whether you like it.
Our article on why wolves howl deals with the other half of the myth. See wolf pendant necklaces.
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