"The sun at that time, at 3:30 p.m., was in the one o’clock position,"
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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.
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.
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.
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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I have enough eye problems as it is with glaucoma and a cataract (I’m having cataract surgery in October) in one eye. Besides, here in the Houston area, it feels like I’m on the surface of the sun when I step outside on the deck. I think I’ll skip looking directly at the sun, even with “safe” glasses.
I am only interested in the total eclipse which lasts for about 2:20 mins/secs where we are going in the totality band.
As long as the photosphere of the sun’s disc is totally covered by the Moon there is no danger in looking directly at the eclipse as only the Corona is visible during totality and the Sun’s harmful rays can not reach your eyes.
Look away when the duration time is over or if you notice “Bailey’s beads” (caused by the valleys on the Moon) along the emerging edge of the Sun.
If you can only view the partial eclipse, use the eye protection everyone is recommending here.