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knackeredforever @knackeredforever4/8/2024, 4:45 PM

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@SnepGem4/8/2024, 3:59 PM

EDIT: THE CONTENTS OF THIS POST ARE ESPECIALLY TRUE FOR THE PATH OF TOTALITY. DO NOT LOOK AT THE ECLIPSED SUN WITHOUT PROTECTION NO MATTER HOW ECLIPSED IT IS.

Kinda crazy to think about the fact that we’re basically guaranteed to have a wave of people with eye damage because they didn’t know (as I didn’t until a few minutes ago) that looking at the eclipsed sun is more dangerous than looking at it normal-ways.

Apparently this is because the lower light level causes your pupils to dilate, which lets in more of the sun’s UV than normal (UV being the part that actually causes eye damage).

Maybe this is more common knowledge than I thought, but it still can’t hurt to say that YOU SHOULD NOT EVEN GLANCE AT THE ECLIPSE WITHOUT PROPER EYE PROTECTION. Even a glance can cause permanent damage!

#solar eclipse #Solar eclipse 2024 #eclipse #safety

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NeckSpike @neckspike4/8/2024, 4:12 PM

This was a thing I was told multiple times as a child in the 80s/90s, so it used to be common knowledge.

Lucianna @foul-fortune-feline4/8/2024, 5:09 PM

I mean I grew up in the 00s and received the same treatment, so it may just be a regional thing. Or we were both lucky enough to be born into families that both knew and cared about the risks and our experiences are rare in that regard

Chamomile🐑@chamomile4/8/2024, 4:42 PM

That makes sense but I never thought about it; TIL

Fallible @fallible-things4/8/2024, 4:47 PM

Built Different Syndrome

@SnepGem4/8/2024, 4:48 PM

Your pfp being an eye gazing upwards makes this hit real different

Fallible @fallible-things4/8/2024, 4:55 PM

Lmao. Scotland though, no hubris for me.

walking mirage @atomicthumbs4/8/2024, 4:54 PM

unpublished my post until i figure this out but nasa specifically says you can look without a viewer during totality

@SnepGem4/8/2024, 5:00 PM

Reading a little further to where it says “looking at it outside of this time can instantly cause eye damage”, the concern would then become each individual person’s judgment about when totality is in effect. Would you risk trusting yourself to just know? I didn’t know it was safe during the exact minutes of totality but that does not mean it’s safe, and frankly I think “please be careful” is a better message to spread than “under really specific conditions it’s actually perfectly fine!”

walking mirage @atomicthumbs4/8/2024, 5:07 PM

you won't see shit if you look at it through a viewer during totality and everyone around goes ooh and ahh

@SnepGem4/8/2024, 5:11 PM

Fucken hell, that’s frustrating if true. I still think it’s better to spread words of caution and not “it’s okay IF” but whatever, I guess we’ll all see for ourselves when the eclipse actually happens

walking mirage @atomicthumbs4/8/2024, 5:11 PM

i edited my post to add links to an eclipse timer app! it tells you when it's safe

@SnepGem4/8/2024, 5:18 PM

That’s good. Tbh I hope you’re right because it’d mean less eye damage and more eclipse viewing. Well, I mean, I do hope you’re wrong about special viewers not being able to see anything during totality, because otherwise it’d be the best of both worlds, but uh, other than that, yeah.

walking mirage @atomicthumbs4/8/2024, 5:26 PM

the corona's invisible due to the sun's brightness every other time, it won't be visible through viewers that tame the sun's brightness

ash 🌠@hauntedlatte4/8/2024, 5:18 PM

please take the glasses off during totality otherwise you will miss the incredible part!!! it's safe during totality and that's the part that will actually take your breath away and you can't see it at all if you have the glasses on

source: I viewed the 2017 eclipse

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