Posted on 08/17/2017 1:39:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Lou Tomososki was a high school teen in 1962 when his science teacher told the class about a solar eclipse that was going to take place that afternoon, NBC affiliate KGW reported.
Tomososki and a friend viewed the partial eclipse outside Marshall High School in Portland.
"The sun at that time, at 3:30 p.m., was in the one o’clock position," said Tomososki. "I said to Roger, 'If you stare at it long enough the brightness goes away.'"
By that night, both Tomososki and Roger were having vision problems. He said the vision problems never got any worse — but they also never got any better. A doctor later him that he had burned his retina during the eclipse.
Now, at 70, he says he and his friend both still have vision problems to this day.
"You know how the news people blur a license plate out," said Tomososki. "That’s what I have on the right eye, about the size of a pea, I can’t see around that."
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"The sun at that time, at 3:30 p.m., was in the one o’clock position,"
Welders mask
they can probably fix that now
I keep reminding my brain dead 19 year old step son not to look at the eclipse. My money says he will anyway...
I remember that eclipse. My cousin’s and my family drove down the Jersey shore for hours to some beach to watch the eclipse. We knew about the dangers and viewed the sun through shards of broken beer bottle glass we found on the beach. At that time most beer bottles were amber in color and apparently the tint was sufficient to filter out the harmful rays. We never had any eye problems.
Tell him that the sunlight has lots of good vitamins and fiber, like broccoli.
Back in the 80’s when I was pipefitter welder, we were told by the contractor not to use our welding hoods to watch the eclipse and if caught expect to be terminated immediately.
I burned a tiny hole in my retina by staring at a magnifying glass while burning holes in paper.
A Dr. later told me that it hardly affects my vision at all. If I stare right at a star it is blank. Otherwise I would never notice it.
Opthamologists are going to make a KILLING as a result of all the dumbasses that watch this eclipse.
I took it mean where he thought the sun was on the sky.....at his one o’clock position
And the reason?
An welding arc can burn your retina better than the suns rays
Better to view obliquely. Plenty of ways to view the eclipse without ever looking directly at the sun
The reason staring at a partial eclipse is more dangerous than the full sun is because the overall light is less, so the pupils are more dilated. So although there’s a smaller surface area of the sun that focuses on the retina, it tends to be brighter than normal.
I dont trust the glasses, completely. I plan to take a brief glance at the sun with the glasses, and then take them off and look all around at how this weird lighting reflects off the landscape. That really interests me more than the black hole in the sky.
A solar eclipse can be viewed directly safely with a number 14 welder’s lens, available at any welding suppy store or on Amazon.
Just affix the lens to a paper towel card board tube on one end. I’ve also seen special glasses available which contain similar protective lenses.
Beer goggles?
Liability.
I bought a pair of cardboard eclipse glasses from Walmart for a buck.
Normally I would be a bit skeptical but they pretty much have to be OK or they would face huge lawsuits.
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