Who peeked?

Yes. Kept wondering if I’d wake up blind. Then discovered DS no2 used to do dares with his friend to see who could stare at the sun the longest 🙄. Thankfully he isn’t blind either but honestly there are some things you don’t want to know 🤦🏽‍♀️.

Presumably those 70 people had immediate issues for the numbers to be attributed to watching the eclipse. What won't be known is how it contributed in those that went on to develop sight loss due to macula degeneration,
of which sun damage is a big factor.

Protect your peepers peeps, wear decent sunglasses when in the sun going forward. 😎

Of course it technically does.
But use a bit of logic here. Most of the cases involved more than a minute, and I don't think there's any doubt that risk is correlated to length of exposure.

So yes it is theoretically possible the all 28 people who viewed it for less than a minute, got damaged from one second of viewing or less, then nothing for the other 59 seconds, and then all the other injuries take place at more than the minute mark. But surely you realise that makes no sense

Out of curiosity, for those of us who peaked, should we have stared at it for a minute instead? Is the risk the same?

Actually less than that, milliseconds too, but I don't think some of you 'peekers' are quite ready for that level

Less than a minute is inclusive of 1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds... It includes seconds 1 to 59

Good luck to you

Exactly. They seem to think they are daring rebels rather than ignorant idiots

Yes, this is what I mean. It was 70 people, 28 of which looked for less than a minute (which is quite a long time).

No, because I value my eyesight

Considering all the information and publicity about this, I can only conclude the idiots who peeked belonged to the “ it won’t happen to me club!”

It’s not that deep. Lots of people have said they looked.

She started a thread about looking at the eclipse punctuated with many laughing emojis. I don't think she's all there.

BBC

"After the previous total eclipse of the sun that was visible in the UK in 1999, around 70 people were left with damaged sight.

"Many of them had spent less than a minute looking at the spectacle, without realising they were harming their eyes."

It was a lovely night last night & the sun stayed too bright to look at at any point.

If you didn't have glasses you wouldn't have known that anything was happening I don't think.

Perhaps that's why some people were underwhelmed?

I thought it was fabulous!

As someone who peaked, the instinct to look away was still there, just as strong. No one could look for long even if they wanted to. It might be more of an issue with a higher % covered. Without the glasses (or stacked sunglasses or something that reduces the light) if just looked like the normal sub anyway, just slightly odd shaped.

Very well said!

Well checking back in to say I can still see normally this morning!

*Can't HAVE! Not 'of', OP!

Even with glasses I accidentally peeked! Twice.. whilst adjusting them.(I'm a spectacle wearer anyway and was trying to get a tighter fit and they slipped... I had spots for a few minutes..
I watched it from a beach in North Cornwall and it was amazing! It was a lovely atmosphere. Of course it wasn't as dark as 1999 but it was only a partial eclipse. It went noticeably cooler and darker and the seagulls started heading home..

We watched it from Sidmouth seafront using my digital telescope - got some great photos, could even see some sun spots. I peeked a couple of times, mainly when repositioning the telescope.

I peeked a couple of times. I did see blobs in my eyes for quite a while after.

I am prescribed glasses but never wear them, maybe the sun beams will act like laser beams and fix my eyes.

The normal brightness of the sun means that you naturally can't look directly at the sun long for a sustained period. In an eclipse, that instinct to look away is absent, even though the magnitude of the rays is still present, and people therefore can look directly for a longer period (though still seconds) and unknowingly cause damage. The damage isn't immediately obvious. It can develop over time.

I'm not sure. Sorry. But if you find out please let me know.