Who peeked?

I just read an American article saying that remarkably few people get retina damage after an eclipse which is good as I peeked, too

How did you get all the way through typing that and pressing post without wishing you were a different sort of person.

😁

great minds!

The Triffids will be here any minute.

Yup

now Shitting myself I’ll be blind by am and Triffids will get me

Same here weird sensation in my eye 😬

disappointing tbh

They were making the valid point that anyone would need to be a complete moron to risk their eyesight through their own stupidity

I was so hoping to hear about your health problems.

We used this same screen in 1999 and are fine thanks. My DH was a welder, and this screen more than meets the necessary standards for safe viewing.

@JohnBullshit Yeah I'm sure I have a weird sensation in my left eye, never mind that I have chronic migraine and this is the norm for me!

I had some glasses, which I’m very worried weren’t strong enough. Took this photo through the glasses though

I loved it. Fair number of people where I was who passed round glasses for those without them. One person had brought a colander with them and there were several pinhole cameras. There was a nice atmosphere and all very friendly

I didn't peek, and without any special glasses I couldn't see much happening either. Odd, really. I go for a walk about that time most evenings, if it's not too hot, and while I avoid looking directly at the sun, I don't normally worry about it. Now I've got a psychosomatic headache and I swear my bloody eyelashes are sweating. Nothing to do with the stupidly hot day we've had here.

This was all we could see there were lower dark clouds and then thick upper clouds covering the sun the whole time.

Yeah my mum went mental at me. 😂

Valid point! So stupid!!

I more than peeked looked up for ages before realising. If I dont report back tomorrow assume I'm blind.

I did feel a bit stupid now, I'm in the north west and there was thick cloud cover so you could see a hazy orb when the lower clouds parted but you couldn't really see any of the eclipse as the cloud cover just totally diffused the light. It didn't even get much darker just a bit of a weird colour to the light. Still kicking myself and feeling a bit anxious about it though.

I bought eclipse glasses last week and spent a whole week telling 4yo DD that when the eclipse happens she absolutely must not take them off to look. Literally 7 days saying this to her.

Eclipse closes right in, she takes them off, stares at the sun and says "I can see the moon, mummy!" 🤦🏻‍♀️ So DD peeked, gargh! Hopefully it was only a couple of seconds but very frustrating after repeatedly telling her not to for DAYS!

It has to be a certain grade and it’s fine - 12 plus. I looked it up as I was thinking about getting a mask, but managed to get special delivery glasses from eBay.

I didn’t peek. Neither did I in 1999. We were in Cornwall so witnessed the total eclipse that time.

And anyone, who thought it would go completely dark, that’s not how it works. It only goes black in a total eclipse and rather dark at 95% plus. The sun is too powerful to make that much difference at 90%. It did get darker though, didn’t it? Part of the sky looked like a dull day and another part was bright sunshine here. Strange.

Yep. Was telling dh last night how the oversold yet underwhelming 1999 event panned out as getting a bit dark then lighting up again around lunchtime.

This one didn't even live up to that.

I just stood still and blinked very slowly. Honestly that has the same effect.

I really enjoyed it. You definitely needed the glasses to see the moon cross the sun. Loved the change in the light. At one point the sun looked like a star like you see in the space photos because the light when really white against a quite dark background. The shadows were cool too.