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2017 Solar Eclipse - Protect Your Eyes (pg. 2)
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| Zharen |
| We got about 70% totality here. Someone from my work brought a welder's mask to view the eclipse with and it worked extremely well. It got about a shade darker outside but it looked as if one was wearing sunglasses. Not too dark. I got more of a kick looking at crescent shaped light patterns shining through the tree leaves than the actual eclipse. |
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| Trance-M |
| quote: | Originally posted by AlphaStarred
I looked at it with sunglasses and then without. Hopefully I'll be alright. |
Really? That was a stupid thing to do as even sunglasses don't protect enough. |
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| JEO |
| quote: | Originally posted by AlphaStarred
I looked at it with sunglasses and then without. Hopefully I'll be alright. |
Are you serious? For how long? At least every other news article you read about any sort of eclipse says that you shouldn't look at them with your bare eyes. If your vision's blurry, go to a doctor asap.
We watched a partial eclipse a couple of years back by putting sunglasses in front of our phones' camera's lenses and then using the camera app, as the whole town had sold out everything from protective eyewear to welder's masks. |
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| JEO |
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| AlphaStarred |
| quote: | Originally posted by JEO
Are you serious? For how long? At least every other news article you read about any sort of eclipse says that you shouldn't look at them with your bare eyes. If your vision's blurry, go to a doctor asap.
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Thanks for the tip. It wasn't very bright outside and I had only read about the possible damage after the fact. I gazed a few times, maybe 5 seconds or less each time. I do wear glasses, but I'm not sure if that would make any difference. I don't notice any changes at the moment, so I'm hoping I'll be alright. |
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| Jon_Snow |
Look at Eclipse
[Meme pic]
See Doctor
I glanced up for a couple of seconds and now I can see the eclipse whenever I close my eyes. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zoso
The street lights came on... |
that's interesting. i'd always figured street lights came on at a pre-determined time rather than the system being light sensitive.
| quote: | Originally posted by JEO
...by putting sunglasses in front of our phones' camera's lenses and then using the camera app... |
why would the sunglasses be necessary? |
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| JEO |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
why would the sunglasses be necessary? |
When it's a partial, the amount of light still tends to be so high the screen lights up a bit too much from around where the sun is on it, so you can't really see what you want to see, which is the partially eclipsed sun in detail. I guess you could turn down that.. That thing that lets light into the.. The camera thing. See, this is why I used sunglasses instead of some fancy setting on the phone's camera. |
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| Zoso |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
that's interesting. i'd always figured street lights came on at a pre-determined time rather than the system being light sensitive.
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Most of them, around here at least, are photo sensitive. When I got to work early Monday morning, the guy that does all of our maintenance had me let him into one of our old server rooms where the
breaker panel for our photo-sensitive parking lot lights is installed. He turned that breaker off, just in case. I told him it was a good idea, as I had not thought of that. Honestly, I didn't know what to expect from the eclipse. I knew the media (lol fake news lol) were really playing it up, so I assumed it would be something of a let down based on that alone. It was no letdown, however. It got way darker than I ever imagined, and hearing the Cicadas respond so quickly to the sudden lost of light was just surreal. What amazed me the most was how, even with just the tiniest sliver of sun showing, it was still very bright. But when that little sliver disappeared, bam...it was like someone dialed down a dimmer switch very rapidly. Also, it seemed like it got brighter much quicker once the sun started to reappear. |
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| Zharen |
| quote: | Originally posted by AlphaStarred
Thanks for the tip. It wasn't very bright outside and I had only read about the possible damage after the fact. I gazed a few times, maybe 5 seconds or less each time. I do wear glasses, but I'm not sure if that would make any difference. I don't notice any changes at the moment, so I'm hoping I'll be alright. |
I wouldn't worry about it. If you were only staring at it for seconds at a time then I doubt you will experience any noticeable problems with vision. |
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| Jon_Snow |
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| Sushipunk |
Some smart people in this thread, really.
Weren't you all taught, as children, to not look directly at the sun? :wtf: |
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