Eyes on the sky? Here’s what an optometrist wants you to know

So most people will have the eclipse glasses by this point, hopefully. But not everyone knows how they work. Maybe you could talk about that a little bit. So eclipse glasses are 200 times stronger than sunglasses. Sunglasses don’t work in this case. When we view the sun, the way they work is you put them on, you should see absolutely nothing except for the sun. That’s the only thing that’s going to show up. So that’s one way to keep your eyes safe and protected. How do you know that the eclipse glasses that you have purchased or been given are legit? Well, you want to make sure you got them from a reputable source. They will have an ISO symbol. They will have a warning label. They will have the numbers one 2312-2. They usually have an address, or at least they’ll give you the website of where these came from or who certified them. A lot of people will go to a parking lot or some other, you know, populated area that might have light standards around to watch the eclipse. What’s what’s your word about that or your word of advice? Well, it’s it’s interesting at night when the sun starts to set. Automatically, lights will come on in parking lots and around buildings. So make sure you’re not in a location where that’s going to happen. It might room part of that that cool experience. So go somewhere just outside a parking lot or in a field behind us. For example, might be a nice place to view the eclipse. Excellent. Now this seems like it could also apply to, like staring at your phone and then trying to watch the eclipse. Maybe just stay off the phone for a little while. Yeah, taking the environment.