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Why Viewing the solar eclipse could damage your eyes ?
why viewing the solar eclipse could damage your eyes?
When we were kids we all had the experience that we were burning our initials and a piece of wood with a magnifying glass. Well unfortunately the lake the Eclipse can do that to your retina if you look at it without proper protection. Basically, you're focusing the energy of the Sun on the back of your eye now normally the Sun is so bright that we're inclined not to look at it. It's painful to look at it but with a partial eclipse, there's enough coverage of the intensity of the white light that the other wavelengths of light particularly the red wavelength which is heat can be focused on your retina and can burn it. So if we want to think of the retina as the film and the camera if your eyes like a camera the light comes in the front it's focused by the cornea the clear part of the lens then it's focused on the retina which is the film in the camera.
If you burn it you can imagine what would happen if you burned a piece of film in a camera or if you burned the chip in your LCD camera. So what we have to do is if you're going to look at the Eclipse you have to have special glasses to protect your eye this can be a particular problem for children who might look over glasses so they have to watch very carefully if they're going to participate at all in the Eclipse phenomena. Now where I'd say going to get maybe a 70 80 % eclipse here but that's just bad enough to burn your eye and you might not be aware of how dangerous it can be. Children would not be aware of the danger and if they were to look up while they're in recess they could permanently affect their vision.
well, you could imagine what would happen if you burned the chip on your carry you would have a hole you would have sensing elements that were not perceiving the image and so you would have a hole in your vision now you might not notice it right away but it's there, fortunately, a lot of time there's significant recovery but even if the vision recovers to 20/20 studies of the retina could show that there was permanent damage to that retina what that would have to do later in life we can't be sure so you want to avoid even that possibility by using only the appropriate protection and the dark glasses that you can wear it's more than just the dark glasses that you might get from your right doctor. Or right if your regular sunglasses.
Informational publication by the American Academy of Ophthalmology and specifically they're pointing out that even the darkest sunglasses that you could buy in the drugstore or anywhere else are not adequate. You have to specifically design Eclipse viewing glasses to look at the Eclipse and a particular danger.
optical devices that focus the light because that even intensifies the effect of the Eclipse so you have to have special filters in a camera or binocular or something and I'd really unless you know what you're doing avoid that at all costs so if you're one of you the Eclipse you can either use these special glasses or the I think NASA website has information on how to create a little pinhole camera so that you can look at it indirectly and that would be a really good way to show children whether they're not using those glasses. And there's no chance they're going to look over them so this isn't a very enjoyable event it's a historic event but it has to be viewed carefully and protect your vision during that time.
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