Information for safe viewing in a couple of weeks time:

http://www.optometrists.asn.au/Home/SolarEclipse/tabid/1126/language/en-US/Default.aspx

buffy said:

Information for safe viewing in a couple of weeks time:

http://www.optometrists.asn.au/Home/SolarEclipse/tabid/1126/language/en-US/Default.aspx

I gave up trying when I had to push a pinhole in a box.. it was too fucken dark to see!

buffy said:

Information for safe viewing in a couple of weeks time:

http://www.optometrists.asn.au/Home/SolarEclipse/tabid/1126/language/en-US/Default.aspx

we’ve just bought some of these

opinion?
http://shop.iceinspace.com.au/shop/iceinspace-eclipse-glasses/

wookiemeister said:

buffy said:

Information for safe viewing in a couple of weeks time:

http://www.optometrists.asn.au/Home/SolarEclipse/tabid/1126/language/en-US/Default.aspx

we’ve just bought some of these

opinion?
http://shop.iceinspace.com.au/shop/iceinspace-eclipse-glasses/

We see lots of eclipse photos.. what we never see is EXIF data that proves they did it safely.

5. Optometrists Association Australia does not endorse the use of solar eclipse glasses or special filters for safe solar eclipse viewing.

5b. OAA does endorse the strongest posterior protection for members.

bump

(Yes, I know some people here and in the New Forum do not agree with the advice given, but it’s their eyes and they can do what they want with them)

buffy said:

bump

(Yes, I know some people here and in the New Forum do not agree with the advice given, but it’s their eyes and they can do what they want with them)

so are these glasses safe to view the sun?

or don’t look at the sun at all?

I don’t know wookie. I do not know the product. I have no way of knowing. The safest way is the way we viewed a total eclipse in the 1970s in Melbourne. On the TV. We went outside at the totality, but did not look at the sun.

I see people in the other forum seem to think you can look at it safely, but I do have at least one patient with a lovely crescent shaped burn on her macula. I personally would not risk it. You cannot undo it and you have the burned spot for the rest of your life.

buffy said:

I don’t know wookie. I do not know the product. I have no way of knowing. The safest way is the way we viewed a total eclipse in the 1970s in Melbourne. On the TV. We went outside at the totality, but did not look at the sun.

I see people in the other forum seem to think you can look at it safely, but I do have at least one patient with a lovely crescent shaped burn on her macula. I personally would not risk it. You cannot undo it and you have the burned spot for the rest of your life.

the ice in space glasses seem to be to a british standard, i looked at the venus transit through two weilding glass slides and it did no damage but i didn’t stare. i think if i use the glasses i will not stare but take quick glances, you’re right any damage will be forever.