#eclipse safety

Poptart wore his eye protection, and this is what he saw!

Richmond Harrison remembers to wear his eclipse glasses and his Tigers jersey for the eclipse. Richmond Harrison wants you to be as safe as he is during the eclipse! Wear your eclipse glasses before and after totality. And keep a lookout for any rogue umps!

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Video description: A librarian holds two eggs in front of his eyes and says "These are your eyes. These are your eyes if you look directly at the eclipse." He smashes them into a frying pan. There is a shattering sound, cackling, and several smash cuts to the eggs frying and overcooking with an overexposed film filter. The librarian says "Wear eclipse glasses, man." and walks off frame. Text overlay reads Wearing eclipse glasses can shield you from the sun's harmful brightness and the eldritch twilight of the eclipse. Protect yourself. End description.

Only you can prevent ocular fires.

NASA 2024 Eclipse Safety Sheet (PDF)

1. Look for the ISO logo on the glasses and the code ISO 12312-2

2. Use a lightbulb to check it. Look at a lightbulb through them, if you can only see a very dim light from the filament, you should be okay. The fake ones you can still see with the glasses, the real ones it’s black unless looking at the sun/a light

3. Check the manufacturer to see if they are on this list

(This is the video I watched to learn this)

Extras:

-Use common sense, if you have kids make sure they know to be careful as well

-Read the directions on the glasses. Mine say don’t use to look at the sun for more than 3 minutes, I would say just use it to look for a few seconds cause that’s all you really need anyway

-If you have binoculars, they need separate covers for them that you use on the front end (totally don’t know this cause my brother almost burned a hole in a pair of glasses in 2017 cause he didn’t cover the front of the binoculars shhh)

If you don’t have glasses, you can make an eclipse viewer pretty easily! Honestly you could probably even just get a piece of aluminum foil or darker paper and poke a hole in it and it would work (I don’t think it’ll work with clouds though…who knows lol)

And of course cause I can…I’m just sharing these pages from the Gravity Falls book Mabel and Dipper’s Guide to Mystery and Nonstop Fun as the directions ✨

If you live in an area that will view the eclipse, have fun, do magic- get your witchy shit going because this is super duper amazing in the cosmic sense of the word. 

as the eye blog i am required to post this:

don't sacrifice your eyes to see a cool thing because then you can't see any other cool things after that

make sure you got the right stuff for looking @ the eclipse today!

as said by the ever-awesome nasa:

The only safe way to look directly at the uneclipsed or partially eclipsed sun is through special-purpose solar filters, such as “eclipse glasses” or hand-held solar viewers. Homemade filters or ordinary sunglasses, even very dark ones, are not safe for looking at the sun; they transmit thousands of times too much sunlight.

what this means is that you guys need special glasses to look at the sun! you gotta have ones that are compliant with the ISO 12312-2 international safety standard, because otherwise your eyes will melt (or you’ll just go blind).

when the sun is completely covered (aka totality) then you can remove the glasses for a little bit, and then the second it starts to get lighter again you gotta put the glasses back on.

if you’re not in the path of totality, you can’t take the glasses off at all. not until you aren’t looking at the sun any more.

and if you normally have actual glasses, just pop the eclipse glasses over the top or hold them there! you’ll be good to go!

if you got no glasses, you can look at the eclipse via projection! once again, nasa comes to the rescue:

An alternative method for safe viewing of the partially eclipsed sun is pinhole projection(link is external). For example, cross the outstretched, slightly open fingers of one hand over the outstretched, slightly open fingers of the other, creating a waffle pattern. With your back to the sun, look at your hands’ shadow on the ground. The little spaces between your fingers will project a grid of small images on the ground, showing the sun as a crescent during the partial phases of the eclipse. Or just look at the shadow of a leafy tree during the partial eclipse; you'll see the ground dappled with crescent Suns projected by the tiny spaces between the leaves. 

the nasa site is really good for this actually, here’s the page they have for the eclipse.