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.
(Excerpt) Read more at gazettetimes.com ...
If you think of it it’s easy to imagine how people in,say,the 1400’s would have been freaked out by a total eclipse.
All right, thread hijackers, move along. :-)
As if...but I thought I’d be quicker on the keyboard.
;)
That would make sense. If animals were studying the Stars we’d be in a lot of trouble lol
That could easily have been a Doorsong.
not sorry :-P
What’s the story with this thing? Does the Earth go dark?
I just had two cataract surgeries in the past month. A solar eclipse should not be on my itenary. But it is. Not to look at the sun, but to look about me at the result of the sun being eclipsed. Near full darkness at two in the afternoon? That is what I look forward to experience. I’ll be happy looking at the millions of pictures if the process that caused the result I will so enjoy.
could YOU repeat that? <:
Yes, if it had a little more soaring, wandering keyboard thrown in.
Who sang it? Ya' got me there ...
We are.
Moving right along.
When you set sail on this Crystal Ship
it all becomes quite logical.
“They’ll bear a tiny picture of a globe with the letters “ISO,” the initials CE and a statement that reads, “Conforms to and meets the Transmission Requirements of ISO 12312-2.”
That certification may already have been counterfeited with inferior product. Just like news — Know your sources!
Go to Oregon to watch the eclipse, don't come to Idaho. They have legal weed, while we have Constitutional Carry, and aren't inclined to put up with your crap.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Bruce sang it on ‘Greetings From Asbury Park’, his first album.
You know, back when he was good and not liberal, lippy jerkwad.
:)
Both of them time travel me right back to high school and my boyfriend’s VW Bug.
Bittersweet, that.
The same sort of thing happens snow in blindness.
Only in some areas. Look at post #11 for the visual details.
No, all the electric lights will still work ;-)
But the moon will appear to “cover” the Sun, partially or fully, depending on where you are:
https://astrobob.areavoices.com/2017/08/01/how-dark-will-it-get-during-the-august-total-eclipse/
(My grandmother experienced one as a child, and told about the roosters crowing as at dawn, when the sun started to ‘come back’.)
I witnessed the total eclipse in Nova Scotia in 1972 and met a man there whose vision was severely damaged by improper Eclipse viewing previously to that one!! It’s a real danger!!! I was only ten years old,but I remember it very well!! Be safe!!
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