I won’t be in the path of totality but even if I were, I would never risk looking at the sun even at the moment of total occlusion. The solar corona is still very bright, and I’m not going to risk my eyesight on the say-so of some CNN writer. It would be far more interesting to watch the rapid nightfall and subsequent dawn around us than to start up at the sun itself.
“I would never risk looking at the sun even at the moment of total occlusion. The solar corona is still very bright, and I’m not going to risk my eyesight on the say-so of some CNN writer.”
I’m not going to respond to every comment claiming retinal damage during totality but this is BS. Those who experience eye injury during an eclipse looked at the sun before or after totality, not during. The corona is no brighter than the full moon and that is only at the part closest to the solar disk. Ask any astronomer.