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Nope. You just see warnings about it because people are more likely to look directly at the sun during an eclipse than normally. That said, there also isn't any less danger in it, and looking directly at the sun really isn't a good idea under any circumstances. Best to get some heavily smoked glass (much more so than regular sunglasses), watch through some sort of projection system, or just observe the effects rather than watching it directly.

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On 8/17/2017 at 1:33 PM, WestRider said:

Nope. You just see warnings about it because people are more likely to look directly at the sun during an eclipse than normally. That said, there also isn't any less danger in it, and looking directly at the sun really isn't a good idea under any circumstances. Best to get some heavily smoked glass (much more so than regular sunglasses), watch through some sort of projection system, or just observe the effects rather than watching it directly.

Turns out I was actually wrong about this. Because the overall light level is lower, the pupils dilate quite a bit, but the light even from just the corona is just as intense, so it can do just as much damage, but the eye is less protected from that damage.

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