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It was great, readers of the other eclipse thread may recall my story of how my 5-year old had to drop a deuce, and well…anticipating traffic I had put one of these
Went to my parents in East TX. Planned on it since 2017, was worried about the weather and while it was a little cloudy enough peeked through for us to get a good look at it. Well worth taking two days off of work.
My dad’s place about an hour outside of Austin is basically dead-center in the totality, so we had over 4 minutes. We had cloud cover, but it was intermittent enough that we still got a good view. It was really freaking cool.
Two years ago I planned ahead and booked a beachfront condo in Mazatlan. Much moderately to our chagrin, the weather forecast predicted 70% cloud cover in Mazatlan today at 11am. So there was only one thing to do: jump in the car and drive east. Cloud cover in Durango was a scant 20% with faster winds.
We crossed the border into Durango province on the rural highway 40. We pulled over on a mountainside and it was still a little hazy, with fast-moving thin clouds. But the haze wasn't so bad once the eclipse began and I was able to snap these.
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
I looked at it for about 3 seconds with eclipse glasses on - the glasses are so dark you can see nothing except the sun itself. I swear it made my eyes hurt. They seem fine now though, might have just been in my head.
To my understanding the damage from looking at the sun will not hurt, you just start to lose part of your vision either temporarily or permanently
You can absolutely suffer physical pain from overbright light including sun glare, but that is apparently caused by a different phenomena than the sun damage which is caused more by intense UV light. IIRC the pain and tendency to tear up and look away is protective, and the big danger of hidden damage comes when for some reason the visible light is decreased but the concentrated UV light isn’t- for example in a partial eclipse, or perhaps if the sun is partially occluded by clouds, or you have sunglasses that aren’t sufficient for blocking UV from direct sunlight but make the sun more tolerable to look at, etc.
IIRC the eye has no way to even detect high intensity UV so it just bypasses the natural defense and mitigation reactions that would normally protect against bright light entirely.
Google Trends data for “Why do my eyes hurt?” over the past 7 days in the US.
Good lord, people.
My assumption wouldn't necessarily be that people looked at the sun unprotected, but instead eyes just can hurt in general but the eclipse has everyone keyed in to it.
Anyone see any aliens? Apparently best time to spot them, with this being one of Terra's must see features. Worlds with a habitable biosphere aren't exactly two a penny in this galaxy, but one where the Star and Major Satellite just so happen to be the same size for this to happen might just be a once in a galaxy occurrence...well worth a trip, though the toilet facilities are merely adequate.
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In the van….and had poop bags for the dogs
So that happened too
Google Trends data for “Why do my eyes hurt?” over the past 7 days in the US.
Good lord, people.
We crossed the border into Durango province on the rural highway 40. We pulled over on a mountainside and it was still a little hazy, with fast-moving thin clouds. But the haze wasn't so bad once the eclipse began and I was able to snap these.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
You can absolutely suffer physical pain from overbright light including sun glare, but that is apparently caused by a different phenomena than the sun damage which is caused more by intense UV light. IIRC the pain and tendency to tear up and look away is protective, and the big danger of hidden damage comes when for some reason the visible light is decreased but the concentrated UV light isn’t- for example in a partial eclipse, or perhaps if the sun is partially occluded by clouds, or you have sunglasses that aren’t sufficient for blocking UV from direct sunlight but make the sun more tolerable to look at, etc.
IIRC the eye has no way to even detect high intensity UV so it just bypasses the natural defense and mitigation reactions that would normally protect against bright light entirely.
My assumption wouldn't necessarily be that people looked at the sun unprotected, but instead eyes just can hurt in general but the eclipse has everyone keyed in to it.
this won't preview but click through to see two 360 cam shots of the eclipse from the shore of Erie.
Basically the high point in the last 300-some years of Lake Erie history
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry didn't meet and capture two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop to be disrespected this way.
Fine.
Sunbirning the inside of your eyes for fun and profit - wait, no, neither of those things...
Sunburning the inside of your eyes to own the libs!
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/albums/72177720316098512/
The ISS alas didn't pass through totality (though even if it did it would have been what, half a second?) but the umbra photos are neat.