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Re: Looking at the Sun through a telescope
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 Aug 6, 22:10 -0500
Ken Muldrew wrote:
"Also, having experienced snow blindness a couple of times (a
photochemical injury similar to naked eye sungazing) I wouldn't recommend
experimenting with this. It would be less painful to just pour a bunch of
sand
underneath your eyelids and leave it there for a day or two."
Wow. I had no idea snow blindness was painful.
Interestingly, many of the sites on eclipse blindness mention that the
damage is completely painless and does not become apparent until some hours after
the end of the eclipse. By the way, I personally have glimpsed the Sun when
it was more than 95% eclipsed.
-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
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From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 Aug 6, 22:10 -0500
Ken Muldrew wrote:
"Also, having experienced snow blindness a couple of times (a
photochemical injury similar to naked eye sungazing) I wouldn't recommend
experimenting with this. It would be less painful to just pour a bunch of
sand
underneath your eyelids and leave it there for a day or two."
Wow. I had no idea snow blindness was painful.
Interestingly, many of the sites on eclipse blindness mention that the
damage is completely painless and does not become apparent until some hours after
the end of the eclipse. By the way, I personally have glimpsed the Sun when
it was more than 95% eclipsed.
-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
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