Lighthouse Guild Offers Eclipse Tips Suitable for Sharing

Posted by Optometric Management

The Lighthouse Guild offers five tips, suitable for sharing with your patients and social media, to help your patients to protect their eyes while viewing the eclipse on Monday, April 8:

• One safe way to look directly at the sun is through special-purpose solar filters, such as “eclipse glasses” or handheld solar viewers. Homemade filters or ordinary sunglasses, even very dark ones, are not safe for looking at the sun. They transmit thousands of times too much sunlight.
• If you normally wear eyeglasses, keep them on. Put your eclipse glasses on over them or hold your handheld viewer in front of them.
• Stand still and cover your eyes with your eclipse glasses or solar viewer before looking up at the bright sun. After looking at the sun, turn away and remove your filter. Do not remove it while looking at the sun.
• Do not look at the sun through a camera, telescope, binoculars, or any other optical device while using your eclipse glasses or handheld solar viewer. The concentrated solar rays could damage the eclipse glasses and allow harmful rays to enter your eyes, causing serious injury.
• Never look at the sun through an unfiltered camera, telescope, binoculars, or other optical device.

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