Eclipse

[Canopus]

Did anybody get to see the partial solar eclipse today?

 

There's an excellent video from the path of totality in Turkey at

 

http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/2006/index.html

[Paula]

No its too cloudy.

 

They said dont stare at the sun for fear of going blind !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I aint seen the sun for weeks fat chance of it blinding me.

[Canopus]

I got a few glimpses but it was very cloudy in Hampshire. The 1984 partial eclipse was much better.

[justamom]

Paula you really make me laugh how true is that no sun here either

[Paula]

 

They always say dont stare at the sun though dont they else youll go blind.

I wonder if any ###### has actually ever gone blind through doing this and if so when and wehere who are they.Or is it just another daft saying.Like if the wind changes yer face will stick like that.Or i always say to my son move back from the tv youll get square eyes.

 

Then we wonder why there so confused our as kids.

[Canopus]

If you were to stare at the sun continuously for 1 minute then you will almost certainly go blind. If you look at the sun through a telescope then you will be blinded instantly. I used a telescope to observe the transit of Venus in 2004. The only safe way of looking at the sun through a telescope is to project the image onto a white screen. When I was setting up the telescope a beam of concentrated sunlight came out of the eyepiece and set fire to some dry grass!

[UltraMum]

Thanks for that Canopus - J will be really interested in that site