Posted on 08/08/2017 12:51:54 PM PDT by PROCON
So you went and looked at the full solar eclipse without proper eye protection, and now your vision is blurry, distorted or tinged with red.
What can your eye doctor do about it?
Short answer: Nothing. So don't.
Ophthalmologist Tomas Lopez of Eyecare Associates in Albany and Corvallis met with about two dozen mid-valley eyecare and health care professionals last week to go over information on the Aug. 21 eclipse and possible effects on patients.
While a quick glance probably won't hurt you — and while the sun can't be seen at all if you look directly at the coming eclipse during its two minutes of totality — there's no amount of time to look at the sun that's considered safe, Lopez said.
And to date, there is no cure for solar retinopathy, which refers to the damage to your retina that direct exposure to the sun can cause. Nor will pain be an indicator: solar retinopathy doesn't usually cause any.
If you're lucky, Lopez said, and you didn't look for long, that blurred or distorted vision might — repeat, might — clear up on its own, although that could be several months down the line.
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Central Oregon Coast here. Not only I-5, but Highway 101 is going to be a nightmare. City fathers are advising us locals to hunker down and stay home, watch the eclipse from our yards.
I do believe that instinct exists; and I love the word, perhaps for perverse reasons.
Merrian Webster Online defines instinct as “ a natural or inherent aptitude, impulse, or capacity”; or,
“a largely inheritable and unalterable tendency of an organism to make a complex and specific response to environmental stimuli without involving reason”; or
“behavior that is mediated by reactions below the conscious level”
But none of that really explains the complexity of it as seen in the behaviors of animals. Scientists keep pretzel-ing themselves to come up with an elaborate material explanation of ‘instinct’; but to me, the more they argue, the further they dig themselves into the ‘hole’ of admitting that there is an Intelligence existent within all of Nature.
Lately, I’ve been watching the Explore.org live cams of the Salmon Migration as it is taking place in the Katmai Nat’l. Park, Alaska. Scientists are not going to ever convince me that there are purely material explanations for all of this, and that it doesn’t also involve - for want of a better word - a ‘spiritual’ element that we don’t yet understand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5mu_febWXg
As for animals looking at the sun: some of them probably USE the sun, or its effects (migration, navigation) but it doesn’t take instinct for any animal to avoid looking at the sun ;-)
When WWI broke out, my grandmother was making some extra money sewing things like sheets for the soldiers. She said she went ‘snow blind’ doing that for hours a day.
The corona is bright, but nothing compared to the surface of the Sun.
You can watch the progression of the eclipse that way.
This is about the best image I could find.
You don't need too put the box over your head. Just cut away one of the sides and tape some white paper at one end and put the pinhole at the other and let the sun shine through the pinhole onto the white paper background.
We did it when there was an annular eclipse some years ago and it worked very well.
Or you could just buy some eclipse glasses for a buck. :-)
I had trouble with things double posting and got a new mouse.
Turns out the old was was so worn the contacts were not working right and it was either all or nothing.
Either I’d click once and it would double click on me, or I’d have to hit the button three of four times to get anything to take.
Hey, it might validate their SSI.
Dude....LOL
You have to trust that you get ones that really work.
There’s a lot of glasses out there that say they comply and when tested were found out to not comply at all.
Some stores are stating they are selling only ones that can be confirmed to work correctly.
I heard Wal-Mart and Lowe’s were two of them.
I think the pinhole box is a fun thing for kids to make; and as a bonus, it can get them started on the principles of photography:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/learn/project/how-to-make-a-pinhole-camera/
The kids really enjoyed it when we did it for that eclipse.
Kids - just like adults - naturally derive great pleasure from anything useful that they’ve made with their minds and hands.
Our ability to Create is one of the ways in which we are ‘made in His image’.
I remember this one thread where the poster was describing this image she could see on the sun. I swear post that lasted months into years.
Thanks!
I believe it!
Hopefully, they won’t close it down Friday evening.
Very well may be it.
I have a ball mouse and it has been ‘hanging’ up and the whole computer not reacting quickly.
Thanks..
I am ‘old’ (used to Underwood & Royal keys getting so tangle up I was typing so fast) so I even tried GENTLY tapping the post key, thinking I may have been to enthusiastic/emphatic when sending out one of my pearls of wisdom..<: <: <:
The infamous Host.
Strange days, indeed.
I spent four days on my hands and knees, picking up fossils at Scientist Cliffs in MD and when I closed my eyes at night, I could still see them.
It was weird.
The moment of totality is a jaw dropper because the effect dwarfs the hour long wait for it to arrive. Not only does the sun become completely blocked but the dome of the sky becomes dark and the stars become visible. Darkness extends down to the horizon where there is a bit of blue and red surrounding you 360 degrees. Even at the last seconds when you get the diamond ring effect and Baileys Beads there is still enough although dim light that you should avoid looking at the sun unprotected. Once totality hits you know something big and phenomenal is happening. Once its over you get an hour long repeat of the disc of the moon moving off the disc of the sun. That part is definitely anti climactic as you want to talk about what you just saw to those who you shared the experience with.
Our ophthalmologist had free pairs, on their check out counter. I grabbed several pair. Not sure if we’ll even need them (nothing to see?), here in Tex.
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