Celestial Body Symbols

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This has been touched in forum #32614. Now I have some examples to illustrate the question about earth, moon, planet, saturn, star, sun, etc.

My own opinion is that it is okay for these tags to be ambiguous, so that saturn, for example, would cover the exact planet, its astronomical symbol, and the generic planet-with-rings symbol.

In any case, some wiki work is needed here. I like the wiki article for star, concise and clear. I would have had the same idea but written it in more detail and much more words.

Take a look at the following cases and discuss!

  • The Sun, the Moon and the Earth as celestial bodies: post #492227
  • The moon, the sun and a star as (ahem) symbols: post #340462
  • In comic-style art, stars often have nothing to do with the space: post #586985
  • Occasionally stars are seen in very different functions in one and the same pic: post #574443
  • The planets of our solar system with their sun as pretty much themselves: post #32333
  • These ones I would call more like symbols... True, I have seen even more iconic use of Saturn somewhere else. post #373050 & post #478575
  • I am not into gaming, but I could have a wild guess at why this is tagged saturn: post #202688

Updated by Katajanmarja

葉月 said:

Sega Saturn

Figured it would be something like that. I am roughly as familiar with Sega Saturn as with Lockheed Saturn. ^^

But I did want to throw that in, just to point out how ambiguously the tag is already being used.

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