Lizzie Gibney
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564 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Aug
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So yeah, you can get terrible retinal burns, like permanent damage from looking at the sun.
And one of the problems is of course you want to see the sun because it's an eclipse.
And then during a partial eclipse, a lot of the sun is covered, and so the rays are kind of dimmed, and especially if it's in the evening, it's towards the horizon.
So it might feel like there isn't any damage happening.
You might not have your natural reaction to flinch away from the sun, that kind of protective measure your body takes.
But actually it is doing quite severe damage.
So, you know, almost every eclipse there is always afterwards a record of people who do
Get injured, unfortunately, so
make sure that's not you.
And there are various ways.
One is to have eclipse glasses, which given this is coming out on the day of the eclipse, people, if they don't have them already, may struggle to get hold of.
But they have very, very heavy filters and they only let through naught point naught naught naught three two percent of UV and visible light.
So teeny teeny tiny amount.
So if you're wearing them, you actually can see absolutely nothing of the everyday world.
As I've found when I'm testing them out.
But if you look up at the sun during the eclipse, you're going to be able to see, you know, the kind of crescent shape as the moon obscures the sun, as we are kind of in the moon's shadow.
And they have to adhere to very specific ISO standards, so make sure you've got exactly the right ones.
If you want some DIY methods, I have those as well.
If perhaps you haven't prepped ahead.
So what you are going to be able to do with
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