#eclipse safety

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

I get people want to make a quick buck from whatever’s “popular,” but like, this isn’t something ultimately harmless like counterfeit Pokémon cards, people could GO BLIND because they thought the eclipse glasses they bought were legit when they were actually cheaply made knockoffs without the proper safety standards real ones have.

You know that one South Park episode with a parody of Miss America singing about the Biggest Douche of the Universe? I think the people making and selling counterfeit eclipse glasses deserve to have that song constantly playing in their heads 24/7.

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.