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I have eye problems in my left eye now because of Diabetic damage and having shots done for months now so I don't need to damage my eyes even more by looking.
Just a few seconds of looking at an eclipse can do lasting eye damage.
Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated where Michael Schettler practices, which is the Columbus area.
An Ohio optometrist issued his plea last Friday: Please, don't watch the solar eclipse outside. And if you do watch it, for vision's sake, do it perfectly.
There is ZERO risk to your eyes observing totality. The only risk is during the partial phases, and only if you use direct rather than indirect methods to observe it AND you don't use the safety equipment properly. Telling people to stay indoors during the eclipse is a ludicrous over-reaction!
I'm wondering if you use welding glasses if that would work?
"The only (welding masks) that are safe for direct viewing of the sun with your eyes are those of shade 12 or higher. These are much darker than the filters used for most kinds of welding. If you have an old welder's helmet around the house and are thinking of using it to view the sun, make sure you know the filter's shade number."
PLEASE be careful. It's very tempting to think you could look at the sun just for an instant during an eclipse. But that instant could be too long or it could turn into longer than an instant. Use special glasses and make sure they are genuine because a lot of fakes have been sold. Seeing an eclipse is not worth never being able to see anything again.
well we have a busy schedule tomorrow and we are probably going to have an overcast day so we are off the hook, good reason not to watch it. look at it this way, none of us will be alive in 100 years to tell the world we watched in 2017 and most people really do not give a darn anyway. We will let our friends, that do watch tell us all about it.
Things have been blown out of proportion and using logic, one can ascertain:
A) The sun's rays during a partial solar eclipse are the same strength as any other day, no more, no less.
B) One sees the sun daily, particularly peripherally, and we are bombarded by her rays daily simply by being outside.
C) It is never advisable to look directly at the sun, thus one shouldn't do so during a partial eclipse, either.
Therefore:
A) being outside during an eclipse is not any more harmful than any other day.
B) Seeing the partial eclipse peripherally is no more harmful than seeing it peripherally on a daily basis.
C) Do not look directly at the sun under any circumstances.
Things have been blown out of proportion and using logic, one can ascertain:
A) The sun's rays during a partial solar eclipse are the same strength as any other day, no more, no less.
B) One sees the sun daily, particularly peripherally, and we are bombarded by her rays daily simply by being outside.
C) It is never advisable to look directly at the sun, thus one shouldn't do so during a partial eclipse, either.
Therefore:
A) being outside during an eclipse is not any more harmful than any other day.
B) Seeing the partial eclipse peripherally is no more harmful than seeing it peripherally on a daily basis.
C) Do not look directly at the sun under any circumstances.
The event has come and gone and while it was overblown on going blind your "logic" left out some important facts...and one key fact completely
Solar retinopathy would be rare on a sunny day because it hurts to stare at the sun, its almost impossible to do without blinking, closing eyes, looking away etc
During a solar eclipse one can stare at the "mostly occluded sun" without any sense of pain, need to blink etc...the damage being done to the retinas during this time is painless but also irreversible.
Telling people not to go outside was plain silly but reinforcing the need not to look at the eclipse was necessary because people can and will do it and the eye damage can be devastating
What's the attraction anyway? I watched the May 1965 version and didn't see anything that rocked my soul.
You have a cold heart, is all I'm going to say.
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look at it this way, none of us will be alive in 100 years to tell the world we watched in 2017 and most people really do not give a darn anyway. We will let our friends, that do watch tell us all about it.
