I know a lot of people in the US are super excited for the eclipse on August 21st. I’m in that group. But if you’re going to look at the eclipse, you need solar eclipse glasses. No sunglasses. And don’t even think about going with no eye protection at all. You can go blind if you look at the eclipse. Going without solar eclipse glasses is NOT optional.
That said, there are people cashing in on the solar eclipse craze. They’re making fake eclipse glasses. The Seattle Times reported on the fakes on August 8th and spoke with a spokesperson for the American Astronomical Society (AAS) about it. Even if the fake glasses seem safe, they’re not. Richard Tresch Fienbern from the AAS explained:
“The problem with fakes is that you can’t know if they’re letting unsafe levels of solar ultraviolet and/or infrared radiation into your eyes. You’d never know until it’s too late because our retinas don’t have pain receptors.”
Fake eclipse glasses can look incredibly convincing. Here is a pair that my mom purchased on eBay.
If you have some solar eclipse glasses already, look for this code:
ISO 12312-2
If that code is not on your solar eclipse glasses do not wear them. Even if they are safe, it is not worth the risk. You can do irreversible damage to your eyes if you look at an eclipse without the right eye wear. This includes blindness. Again, you can go blind if you look at an eclipse with improper eye wear.
Be safe. Get the real deal. The links have been provided to you above.
Please spread this post so more people can see it.
Thank you.
Amazon sent out a bunch of incorrect recalls. I got
Baader Planetarium ones, via
Agena Astro, a reputable authorized reseller for Baader, but Amazon still incorrectly said they “couldn’t confirm” that they were legit
On the other hand, evidently some fakes go so far as to print the ISO cert number on them even though they aren’t.
Honestly, I have some legit glasses verified safe by the local museum I bought them from, and you know what the sun looks like through? an orange ball. and then during the eclipse it will look like a smaller and smaller crescent. It’s not that exciting. And when you have the glasses on, you literally cannot see anything else other than the sun, because they’re blocking out so much light. So you’re not going to be able to see the other weird stuff that happens around you.
Also, even if your glasses are verified safe, watch out for damage/wrinkles/cracks/scratches which might not fully block the radiation. About 30 seconds is enough to cause permanent damage to your eyes.
If you want to be safe and not worry about it, you can live stream it online. Just hook your phone up to the stream and look at everything that’s not the sun.
Another note: DO NOT look at the eclipse through a camera lens, telescope, binoculars, etc. EVEN WHEN YOU HAVE SOLAR GLASSES ON. Like no holding up your DSLR or polaroid and watching through that. Glass lenses refract and intensify light.
I know a lot of people in the US are super excited for the eclipse on August 21st. I’m in that group. But if you’re going to look at the eclipse, you need solar eclipse glasses. No sunglasses. And don’t even think about going with no eye protection at all. You can go blind if you look at the eclipse. Going without solar eclipse glasses is NOT optional.
That said, there are people cashing in on the solar eclipse craze. They’re making fake eclipse glasses. The Seattle Times reported on the fakes on August 8th and spoke with a spokesperson for the American Astronomical Society (AAS) about it. Even if the fake glasses seem safe, they’re not. Richard Tresch Fienbern from the AAS explained:
“The problem with fakes is that you can’t know if they’re letting unsafe levels of solar ultraviolet and/or infrared radiation into your eyes. You’d never know until it’s too late because our retinas don’t have pain receptors.”
Fake eclipse glasses can look incredibly convincing. Here is a pair that my mom purchased on eBay.
If you have some solar eclipse glasses already, look for this code:
ISO 12312-2
If that code is not on your solar eclipse glasses do not wear them. Even if they are safe, it is not worth the risk. You can do irreversible damage to your eyes if you look at an eclipse without the right eye wear. This includes blindness. Again, you can go blind if you look at an eclipse with improper eye wear.
Be safe. Get the real deal. The links have been provided to you above.
Please spread this post so more people can see it.
Thank you.
Amazon sent out a bunch of incorrect recalls. I got
Baader Planetarium ones, via
Agena Astro, a reputable authorized reseller for Baader, but Amazon still incorrectly said they “couldn’t confirm” that they were legit
On the other hand, evidently some fakes go so far as to print the ISO cert number on them even though they aren’t.
Honestly, I have some legit glasses verified safe by the local museum I bought them from, and you know what the sun looks like through? an orange ball. and then during the eclipse it will look like a smaller and smaller crescent. It’s not that exciting. And when you have the glasses on, you literally cannot see anything else other than the sun, because they’re blocking out so much light. So you’re not going to be able to see the other weird stuff that happens around you.
Also, even if your glasses are verified safe, watch out for damage/wrinkles/cracks/scratches which might not fully block the radiation. About 30 seconds is enough to cause permanent damage to your eyes.
If you want to be safe and not worry about it, you can live stream it online. Just hook your phone up to the stream and look at everything that’s not the sun.
Another note: DO NOT look at the eclipse through a camera lens, telescope, binoculars, etc. EVEN WHEN YOU HAVE SOLAR GLASSES ON. Like no holding up your DSLR or polaroid and watching through that. Glass lenses refract and intensify light.
I too hate rich liberal pricks who scapegoat impoverished bigots because they don’t want to confront bigots from the same social class as them, but also as one of the poor benighted hinterlanders, I’m really, really fucking sick of his sob story about how rural white racism/homophobia/anti-semitism/etc is totally ok cuz bubba’s hooked on heroin and the factory closed 15 years ago and also one time some of them mean city gays once said something about not liking homophobia, which is totally mean and elitist and oppressive, so bubba can’t help but be a nazi, and his pride in being pigshit ignorant is striking back at them city elitists. I’ve grown up around people like this, and yes, they are genuinely awful fuckers who don’t need to be cried over.
this bullshit enables bigots, and tbh is also pretty massive insult to people who struggle with this like poverty or addiction without turning into bullying bigots
What cracks me up about this narrative is that POC are much more likely to live in the exact same conditions as poor whites yet, somehow, magically, we manage not to believe in ideology that calls for the genocide of millions, and often are the ones actively fighting against this shite with what little resources we have. Really makes me think.
I know a lot of people in the US are super excited for the eclipse on August 21st. I’m in that group. But if you’re going to look at the eclipse, you need solar eclipse glasses. No sunglasses. And don’t even think about going with no eye protection at all. You can go blind if you look at the eclipse. Going without solar eclipse glasses is NOT optional.
That said, there are people cashing in on the solar eclipse craze. They’re making fake eclipse glasses. The Seattle Times reported on the fakes on August 8th and spoke with a spokesperson for the American Astronomical Society (AAS) about it. Even if the fake glasses seem safe, they’re not. Richard Tresch Fienbern from the AAS explained:
“The problem with fakes is that you can’t know if they’re letting unsafe levels of solar ultraviolet and/or infrared radiation into your eyes. You’d never know until it’s too late because our retinas don’t have pain receptors.”
Fake eclipse glasses can look incredibly convincing. Here is a pair that my mom purchased on eBay.
If you have some solar eclipse glasses already, look for this code:
ISO 12312-2
If that code is not on your solar eclipse glasses do not wear them. Even if they are safe, it is not worth the risk. You can do irreversible damage to your eyes if you look at an eclipse without the right eye wear. This includes blindness. Again, you can go blind if you look at an eclipse with improper eye wear.
Be safe. Get the real deal. The links have been provided to you above.
Please spread this post so more people can see it.
Thank you.
Amazon sent out a bunch of incorrect recalls. I got
Baader Planetarium ones, via
Agena Astro, a reputable authorized reseller for Baader, but Amazon still incorrectly said they “couldn’t confirm” that they were legit
On the other hand, evidently some fakes go so far as to print the ISO cert number on them even though they aren’t.
#GrowingUpUgly
When guys in middle school would get dared by their friends to ask you out and see if you say yes as a joke
How about growingupugly and then turning out sort of okay looking but you don’t know for sure because your self esteem is shot and you’re convinced you look awful?
#GrowingUpUgly Being so wholly convinced of your hideousness that as an adult you now literally cannot even imagine that someone would pay you a compliment and mean it; the only conceivable thing that could be happening is that they’re either a) taking the piss like the boys in school used to or b) so repulsed by you that they feel sorry for you and are telling you you’re pretty because they think you need to hear it.
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