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by netsharc2 hours ago |
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upvoteby diroussel2 hours ago|
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I don’t see the hype as inherently related to social media. There was a lot of hype for the 1999 eclipse that passed through Europe. Everyone was talking about it and where they would go. That’s what it felt like.

It’s a rare and impressive occasion. It’s ok for people to be excited about it.

Buy your glasses in advance.

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upvoteby card_zero1 hours ago|
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The BBC news site has a particular boner for slightly unusual moon appearances. If you search the site for moon, there's abundant stories on topics like "blood moon", "buck moon", "super new moon", "strawberry moon", "blue moon", "orange moon", "worm moon", "snow moon", "wolf moon", "harvest moon", the moon being quite near in the sky to Venus, "beaver supermoon", "hunter's moon", "pink moon", and whenever anything even approximating an eclipse happens they write multiple articles about it. So I am given the impression that eclipses happen every other week.
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upvoteby embedding-shape1 hours ago|
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> The BBC news site has a particular boner for slightly unusual moon appearances.

Humans have, and have had for a very long time. And eclipses do happen a lot more often than we realize, as the world is a big place, and not everything visible to us on one side is even talked about on the other side of this sphere, so international sites like BBC make it seem like a lot more stuff is happening, compared to less "this is about the entire planet" news.

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upvoteby ozim1 hours ago|
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The BBC - well sun never sets on British Empire.
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upvoteby bluebarbet1 hours ago|
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You mangled your joke. Here it is: "The sun never sets on the Bri... BBC"
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upvoteby seba_dos11 hours ago|
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Not exactly every other week, but they do happen at least 2 and up to 5 times a year.
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upvoteby embedding-shape1 hours ago|
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> people think each person needs a pair, not aware that you're not going to stare at the thing the whole time, and sharing is possible

We had like 60 seconds of totality, sharing the glasses with my wife would mean we get 30 seconds each. Of course both of us want double the viewing time and the glasses are a couple of euros.

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upvoteby ButlerianJihad1 hours ago|
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The period of totality is the only phase when you do not need to use protective eyewear. You would be able to safely look directly at the eclipsed Sun, as long as your timing is precise.

https://eclipse.aas.org/eye-safety

It's during the partial/annular/penumbral phases when you use the protective eyewear, and those are lasting a couple of hours on each side.

But even protected viewing should be curtailed to a couple of minutes at a time.

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upvoteby greyw1 hours ago|
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"Let me potentially permanently damage my eyes to save 20 bucks".
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upvoteby ericpauley23 minutes ago|
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How are you potentially damaging your eyes? If it’s totality looking through them is a waste of time (you won’t see anything) and outside that range you have hours to pass them around. The sharing part has no impact.
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upvoteby midnitewarrior3 minutes ago|
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100% totality means there is nothing to damage your eyes. I stood exactly on the line a few years ago and we had over a minute to look at it without glasses. Don't be 2 seconds early or late putting the glasses on though. I stopped looking many seconds early to ensure I wasn't staring up unprotected when the sun started showing again. There was an app that talked through the stages with exact timings and a countdown clock which worked perfectly.
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upvoteby dudefeliciano1 hours ago|
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In Berlin for example all shops ran out of eclipse viewing glasses, people were selling them on eBay & co. at 15 -35 euros a pair…
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upvoteby antaviana1 hours ago|
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In Barcelona, they costed a bit less that 2 euros a pair at a pharmacy the day before the eclipse.
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upvoteby ButlerianJihad1 hours ago|
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I hope that they were safe and certified. There is probably much incentive to sell fakes.

https://eclipse.aas.org/eye-safety/how-to-tell-if-viewers-ar...

I've found that a lot of vendors sell them in large quantity packs, for educators and institutional use. And it is not the sort of thing to find on the racks of stores in the off-seasons. I was unprepared for the last eclipse over the United States. Perhaps in the next two decades, I can score a pair of safety glasses.

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upvoteby lopis45 minutes ago|
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88% Totality here. Queues to buy glasses for 10 bucks the day of the eclipse were hours long.
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