“You’ve planned your road trip, downloaded your science apps, and bought yourself a pair of shiny new spectacles: you’re ready for the eclipse. But is your eyewear is up to the task?
With the Great American Eclipse approaching, demand for eclipse glasses—with special lenses designed to keep the sun from harming your peepers—is surging. And counterfeit glasses are everywhere. In fact, Amazon is so swamped by reports of possibly unsafe glasses that the company is allegedly sending out recalls and refunds for products that are certified as eclipse-safe.”
ARTICLE HERE—— How to make sure your eclipse glasses actually work | Popular Science
I looked directly into the beam from my BLF A6 on turbo through my eclipse glasses , and all I could see was a dim view of the emitter , as if it were a low moonlight level .
Where I am , there will be 83% coverage .
Back in the day , we made an ’ eclipse viewer ’ out of a shoebox .
The schools here will not allow the children to view the eclipse ; but will not count an absence as unexcused .
Hi ! I’m from the government and I’m here to help you !
When I was a kid we made the shoeboxes at school too and they were utter garbage. Kids ended up looking straight at the sun. So probably best that schools aren’t liable for that anyway.
Science tells us of the strange effects of the eclipse on animals, we can expect to see animals rise on their back legs and start speaking to us, I just hope that they don’t have English accents.
If you look down on the ground where shaded by a tree, and can see splotches of sunlight where it passes through the leaves, when the eclipse is going full-tilt, you’ll see the ground covered in little crescents instead. It’s a blast!
If every place is sold out, find a welding supply store and buy a replacement shade for a welding helmet. It’ll be a bit more expensive than the glasses, but it’ll work well and I highly doubt they will be sold out.
My neighbor gave me a pair of eclipse glasses and the first thing I did was grab my BD06, turn it on high, and look directly at the emitter. All I could see was a tiny warm glow, like the tip of a cigarette on a cloudy day.
The view is supposed to be pretty good from the part of Idaho I live in, and the towns full of tourist who have traveled from all over to watch it from here.
“According to the AAS, you can’t really check whether lenses are ISO-compliant without the proper equipment—so you use unapproved lenses at your own peril, no matter how carefully you test them at home.’
I actually viewed the eclipse through 4 pairs of sunglasses and it looked better than some eclipse glasses we borrowed briefly from a person across the street. More sharp and less bright.
I tried to get welding replacement lenses and those + welding masks were all sold out at the 2 nearby home improvement stores. Had some mechanics tell us they didn’t work that well anyways.
the film from thousand oaks cut to fit in a filter ring yielded some good pics with a dslr.
wpafb turned on the storm splitter just in time to get pics.
