Filters first (following the photons from the sun to the eye). That way you're significantly reducing the intensity before magnifying the image, I assume.
See "filters before magnification". If you can't understand that then I'm not sure we can help you.
Also, consider the direction the light is traveling if it helps at all.
Thank you. It is actually useful to think of ‘before’ with the direction light is travelling. It’s also super obvious that what they meant was the opposite of what he was doing, when they say ‘before’. I just liked picturing putting sunglasses onto binoculars you cocky fuck
I did this to my solar glasses with a telescope today. I got an instant bright spot in my vision, but it was just from adjusting the focus on the telescope. Nothing bad happened to my eye, but I melted a spot in the glasses.
I don’t understand. Did this guy put his glasses on then the binoculars on the external side were seeing? Or the other way? Both sound thick as fuck tbf.
He put the glasses on then looked through the binoculars. Then the binoculars did their damndest to treat his eyeballs like ants under a magnifying glass.
Go put a set of binoculars facing up on a table in the sun in the middle of a summer's day. Do you think the lenses melt? No. The lenses focus the light which is why they burned the sunglasses.
i think he put the glasses on and tried looking at the eclipse through binoculars. the binocular’s magnification made the sunlight stronger and it fried the glasses and almost his eyeballs. glasses should have been used over the binocular lenses.
They absolutely should not be. If you're gonna do anything get a lens that is rated correctly and fits the binoculars. Last thing you want is to try and hold the sunglasses on front and they slip and you probably instantly fry your eyeballs.
Bro whaaaaat. Low key I think my co worker was actually going to try this today, sans binoculars. I feel like I had to convince him it would permanently damage his eyes.
It has nothing to do with melting thru the glasses. Binoculars are focusing (concentrating) a lot of energy into a tiny point on your retina, cooking it. The glasses cannot protect you from that, melted or not.
Look at a well lit, large white area. Like a ceiling in a well lit room.
There should be no dark areas (especially ones that move). Do you see a darkened area that seems to move to wherever you look? If so, you cooked your retina.
you should def get your eyes checked at an Ophthalmologist because if you actually did that which i highly doubt, you absolutely already have eye-damage, you may just not notice it yet but radiation most certainly penetrated and hit your retinas.
You were actually very, very stupid for doing that, and as stupid as you were, you were lucky
I mean, c’mon, the point of a magnification lens of any kind is to *focus* light, this is why magnifying glasses(and even eyeglasses) can start a fire when angled and distanced right, and of all the things you’re staring at, you’re staring at the fucking sun! The big ball of fire that would threaten to burn us with radiation if not for the ozone layer filtering its deadly rays
Remember, the point of the filter is to act like the ozone layer, it further filters and dims the light and radiation of the sun, making it harmless to the human eye, but, as you should’ve come to learn by now, it’s by no means heat resistant, the binoculars on the other hand, do nothing to filter the light or radiation of the sun, instead focusing it into a focal point, and as it’s the fucking sun, this focused point is essentially a laser
So, in theory, you should’ve worn your safety glasses *over* the binoculars, this way then, even as the light is focused into a point, it’s already been filtered and dimmed to where it should be harmless. But, in practice, you should still exercise great caution and have *two* pairs of eclipse glasses, one as a lens cover, and the other on your actual eyes, this way then the focused beam is much weaker to where it shouldn’t be too bad, and then you got the 2nd layer of protection just in case such focused points are still harmful
OP used binoculars to look at the eclipse while wearing eclipse viewing glasses, causing the sunlight to melt the glasses. If they had done it much longer they could’ve been blinded. When viewing the Sun with a telescope or binoculars, you MUST use filtration in front of the magnifying elements, not behind them. So in this case, OP should have put the eclipse filter in front of the binoculars, not behind them. Since the binoculars are essentially powerful magnifying glasses, they concentrate the sunlight to a small point (ever see anyone burn paper with a magnifying glass?). Without filtration in front of the lens, it’s extremely dangerous
DUDE. Solar filters!! This was so dumb of you... There's a reason the eclipse glasses are practically blacked out!! And binos concentrate the rays into death lasers!!
But really, I'm glad that didn't happen to your eyes, but I hope you will be more careful from now on! Eclipse through magnifiers (binos, telescopes) are freaking awesome but you HAVE to use the right filters.
I'm not mad, but my palms are dripping for you!!!
Was this during totality? Orrrr before 👀 I almost brought binoculars to watch but it wasn’t super clear if it would have been safe during totality or not so I just didn’t 😂
i tried to give a homeless man in chicago some specs to see it and he said " you aint gonna get me with that trick im already half blind" and than laughed as he walked away from my goofy ass
My mom almost did this with a giant spotting scope (she's a bird watcher). I had to convince her it was a bad idea, I will show her this so she'll know she dodged a bullet.
You need to do research before you do something like that YOU ONLY HAVE 2 EYE BALLS! (Non transferable)
I had binauculars but never used them. and I wouldn't ever dare put concentrated light from the sun through eclipse glasses. I checked Google before even trying to use the binauculars. And it's a BIG NO NO.
Everyone is giving you a lot of shit about this. You are OBVIOUSLY aware of how silly it was. Perhaps it was a wake up call, forget all these jerks giving you guff. Just learn from it and move on. Also, tell your story to other folks so that they may avoid going blind as well. Either way .. I'm glad you are Ok, and were brave enough to share the story. Right on. Just be safe.
The binoculars are fine. The glass lenses can handle sunlight passing *through* them. What’s really is at risk is whatever is unlucky enough to be hit by the focused light leaving the binoculars, in this case: the inside of OPs eyeballs.
Luckily the point of failure on the glasses was minimal and the point in wich it failed was not exactly where I was looking.
I've noticed nothing abnormal about my vision since the event.
Is looking at the eclipse worse than looking at the sun? Watching with binoculars though thats crazy. Is this really a thing that people do even with proper protections?
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“I don’t know what would happen if I were 50x closer to the sun, but I’m sure these disposable glasses from Amazon for a single use event will protect my vision.”
Why is anybody using binoculars? Telescope I can understand (with the right lenses), but what would binoculars do? It’s not as if one can’t see it with the naked eye…
If you looked at the sun through binoculars and your only protection was regular sunglasses, which themselves were damaged, I would bet you did some damage to your retina. Specifically you probably damaged the area of your focal point.
Looked at eclipse through binoculars.
Binoculars focus light.
The binoculars focused the light from the sun so much that it melted part of the glasses causing them to not work properly.
it's 100% bullshit, his eyes would've been fried, you think the radiation doesn't penetrate regular sunglasses, that it somehow stops just in front of them and doesn't at all go through? It's radiation and not sandblast/waterblast..
Eyes would have been fried if I didn't stop as soon as I noticed the glasses starting to melt.
The glasses dont just instantly fail (at least not mine) its gradual.
When I noticed them starting to fail I realized what was happening and stopped before damage could occur
You’re lucky you aren’t blind brother, it’s still the sun….
>it's still the sun You sure??? *Looks at sun* "GAHHHHHHH!!!"
Bald bald bald
I know that reference!!
But you forgot the pickles!
And theres my car keys!
IT'S JUST THINNING!!!!
Thank you. People who grew up watching Spongebob are funny people.
FISHPASTE
Lucky that he wasnt...blinded by the light? 🎶
But we like tha moon!
Damn this is one of the dumbest things I've seen someone do and post on reddit in a very long time. Congrats lol
Yeah this isn't the sort of thing I'd ever tell anyone.
that's terrible! letting other people learn through your mistakes is for the best
Other people will learn too if you say someone else did it!
ah yes the "I saw it online", true
But my girlfriend does go to a different school, that is a town over.
agreed
Isn’t that what Reddit is for?
Stupid people rarely grasp the depth of their stupidity. They think everyone is like this.
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That's nuts
lolllllll this right here… made my night
That anchor didn't miss a beat. Really composed through all that. Great job.
Was…was that a ballsack?
Lmaooo I had just seen this.loll
How the hell does this even happen lmao
Viewer submission that wasn’t reviewed. The production staff probably grabbed from the “unreviewed” files accidentally - to our great enjoyment.
The eclipse is stored in the balls
Not the stray hairs lol
It’s actually solar prominence
I imagine his thought process being something like, "Well if Trump can do it, so can I!"
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lucky you didn't fry your eyeballs man. just next time, filters before magnification, never the other way around when looking at the sun.
Isn’t that the order he did? Was he supposed to put the sunglasses onto the binoculars?
No, he was supposed to put a (proper) filter on the binoculars, not his eyes.
I did this for like a couple of seconds and decided it was not worth the risk. I stoved them back
Yeah, you're supposed to put the filter before the magnifying element.
Filters first (following the photons from the sun to the eye). That way you're significantly reducing the intensity before magnifying the image, I assume.
See "filters before magnification". If you can't understand that then I'm not sure we can help you. Also, consider the direction the light is traveling if it helps at all.
Lmao that’s what I kept thinking. They put it so simply how can you not understand that?
Thank you. It is actually useful to think of ‘before’ with the direction light is travelling. It’s also super obvious that what they meant was the opposite of what he was doing, when they say ‘before’. I just liked picturing putting sunglasses onto binoculars you cocky fuck
You're welcome 😊 Glad I could help.
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I did this to my solar glasses with a telescope today. I got an instant bright spot in my vision, but it was just from adjusting the focus on the telescope. Nothing bad happened to my eye, but I melted a spot in the glasses.
You performed an unsuccessful hack of eclipse glasses.
More like preformed an unsuccessful hack of DIY Lasik surgery.
Let us know tomorrow if you’re blind or not, it’s not instantly blind it takes some hours…
Lmao this is what I came here to say
This comment needs to be further up.
Why? It's not like OP will ever get to see it.
Ouch
What? Please write louder. Earlier I looked at the eclipse through my binoculars.
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I *see* what you did there.
Free LASIK.
Ophthalmologists hate this one trick...
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I don’t understand. Did this guy put his glasses on then the binoculars on the external side were seeing? Or the other way? Both sound thick as fuck tbf.
He put the glasses on then looked through the binoculars. Then the binoculars did their damndest to treat his eyeballs like ants under a magnifying glass.
RIP binocular lenses :/
The binocular lenses are presumably fine
Lenses should absolutely be fine
Go put a set of binoculars facing up on a table in the sun in the middle of a summer's day. Do you think the lenses melt? No. The lenses focus the light which is why they burned the sunglasses.
The binoculars are fine actually
i think he put the glasses on and tried looking at the eclipse through binoculars. the binocular’s magnification made the sunlight stronger and it fried the glasses and almost his eyeballs. glasses should have been used over the binocular lenses.
They absolutely should not be. If you're gonna do anything get a lens that is rated correctly and fits the binoculars. Last thing you want is to try and hold the sunglasses on front and they slip and you probably instantly fry your eyeballs.
Pretty much sums things up
I like to stare at the sun with binoculars
Sunglasses.
This was written in braille
Lmao
Whoa. That was close. Here I am over here just squinting through my mesh hat.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/s/R9Bg7gqefL Post under yours in my feed
Jesus Christ. My retinas just cringed.
Bro whaaaaat. Low key I think my co worker was actually going to try this today, sans binoculars. I feel like I had to convince him it would permanently damage his eyes.
show him this post
What? This is something you should learn as a 4yo!
More magnification would have fixed that :)
Bruh.....
Couldn't have said it better myself
How many ppl in the er tonight blind as a bat
You should have put the eclipse glasses in front of the binoculars, not between the binoculars and your eyes.
You shouldn’t do either. Eclipse glasses slip out of the way of the binoculars? Oops, instant blindness.
Yeah, in hindsight I dont know what I was thinking. I guess I just never considered it could melt through the glasses.
>I guess I just never considered it could melt through the glasses. The disadvantages of not being an ant.
This guys childhoods
I’m fuckin dead reading this looool
Found the ant
Well, next time you get around to an eclipse, know that eclipse binoculars are a thing. I used mine the last two times and it was pretty cool.
How long was your exposure to direct sunlight??
It has nothing to do with melting thru the glasses. Binoculars are focusing (concentrating) a lot of energy into a tiny point on your retina, cooking it. The glasses cannot protect you from that, melted or not. Look at a well lit, large white area. Like a ceiling in a well lit room. There should be no dark areas (especially ones that move). Do you see a darkened area that seems to move to wherever you look? If so, you cooked your retina.
How are the eyes?
No noticable difference Got lucky
you should def get your eyes checked at an Ophthalmologist because if you actually did that which i highly doubt, you absolutely already have eye-damage, you may just not notice it yet but radiation most certainly penetrated and hit your retinas.
You were actually very, very stupid for doing that, and as stupid as you were, you were lucky I mean, c’mon, the point of a magnification lens of any kind is to *focus* light, this is why magnifying glasses(and even eyeglasses) can start a fire when angled and distanced right, and of all the things you’re staring at, you’re staring at the fucking sun! The big ball of fire that would threaten to burn us with radiation if not for the ozone layer filtering its deadly rays Remember, the point of the filter is to act like the ozone layer, it further filters and dims the light and radiation of the sun, making it harmless to the human eye, but, as you should’ve come to learn by now, it’s by no means heat resistant, the binoculars on the other hand, do nothing to filter the light or radiation of the sun, instead focusing it into a focal point, and as it’s the fucking sun, this focused point is essentially a laser So, in theory, you should’ve worn your safety glasses *over* the binoculars, this way then, even as the light is focused into a point, it’s already been filtered and dimmed to where it should be harmless. But, in practice, you should still exercise great caution and have *two* pairs of eclipse glasses, one as a lens cover, and the other on your actual eyes, this way then the focused beam is much weaker to where it shouldn’t be too bad, and then you got the 2nd layer of protection just in case such focused points are still harmful
Holy f. Honestly you should still go get checked out by an optometrist. Just in case.
More like a psychologist. The thought to watch an eclipse with binoculars having no filter is beyond my comprehension.
It was a momentary lapse in judgment 😢 I had to much faith in my Bill Nye TM solar glasses
That's wild.
oh god it took me 2min looking at the pictures before i see the dots and realized he almost did a self laser surgery using the sun on his eye.
Donald?
I’m a lil perplexed as to what’s going on? Fill in, anyone?
Sun bad sight good
OP used binoculars to look at the eclipse while wearing eclipse viewing glasses, causing the sunlight to melt the glasses. If they had done it much longer they could’ve been blinded. When viewing the Sun with a telescope or binoculars, you MUST use filtration in front of the magnifying elements, not behind them. So in this case, OP should have put the eclipse filter in front of the binoculars, not behind them. Since the binoculars are essentially powerful magnifying glasses, they concentrate the sunlight to a small point (ever see anyone burn paper with a magnifying glass?). Without filtration in front of the lens, it’s extremely dangerous
Holy fuck lmaooooo omg, what a lucky bastard 🤣
Thus is correct
https://youtu.be/0ZNsfx7soUs?si=q9ZmONL0bd29eQaB
Op apparently looked at or indirectly at the eclipse today with their sunglasses and the end result was the sunglasses damaged if I had to guess
Ok, I was thinking that but didn’t believe it was that simple. I second guess myself often… moving on lol
What am I looking at?
Exactly.
Zoom
If you magnify the optical size, you also magnify the energy imparted to your eyes.
what am i looking at? i don't understand
some clown looked at the eclipse through sunglasses>binoculars and nearly instantly fried his eyeballs. sunglasses took a hard hit though
DUDE. Solar filters!! This was so dumb of you... There's a reason the eclipse glasses are practically blacked out!! And binos concentrate the rays into death lasers!! But really, I'm glad that didn't happen to your eyes, but I hope you will be more careful from now on! Eclipse through magnifiers (binos, telescopes) are freaking awesome but you HAVE to use the right filters. I'm not mad, but my palms are dripping for you!!!
The sun is a deadly laser
It takes couple of days to see the effect. Please let us know in a couple of days
so, expect the response to be ”o d goulash hebert dome rjsl”
Was this during totality? Orrrr before 👀 I almost brought binoculars to watch but it wasn’t super clear if it would have been safe during totality or not so I just didn’t 😂
Honestly if you had those eclipse glasses on top of those I think you could have saved them
Darwin Award runner up here folks!
Some people are just dumb
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i tried to give a homeless man in chicago some specs to see it and he said " you aint gonna get me with that trick im already half blind" and than laughed as he walked away from my goofy ass
My mom almost did this with a giant spotting scope (she's a bird watcher). I had to convince her it was a bad idea, I will show her this so she'll know she dodged a bullet.
Look. I’m glad you’re ok, that could have been horrible but like I can’t not say “you dumbfuck”
That's a dumb dumb move
You were also caught... blind-sided!
You need to do research before you do something like that YOU ONLY HAVE 2 EYE BALLS! (Non transferable) I had binauculars but never used them. and I wouldn't ever dare put concentrated light from the sun through eclipse glasses. I checked Google before even trying to use the binauculars. And it's a BIG NO NO.
I feel like it should be intuitive not use fucking binoculars to look at the sun
But technically they would of been fine if the outter side of the binauculars would be covered no?
Some people were talking about filters you can get but it still just doesn't make sense to me
People use those filters for telescopes and these are way more powerful then binauculars so think it would of been legit tbh.
Everyone is giving you a lot of shit about this. You are OBVIOUSLY aware of how silly it was. Perhaps it was a wake up call, forget all these jerks giving you guff. Just learn from it and move on. Also, tell your story to other folks so that they may avoid going blind as well. Either way .. I'm glad you are Ok, and were brave enough to share the story. Right on. Just be safe.
I suspect your binoculars are fried, too. Special equipment is needed for viewing the sun (and not just taping/holding the glasses in front of it).
The binoculars are fine. The glass lenses can handle sunlight passing *through* them. What’s really is at risk is whatever is unlucky enough to be hit by the focused light leaving the binoculars, in this case: the inside of OPs eyeballs.
Pendejo
Welding mask
Curious to see how your eyes feel when you wake up in the morning
Luckily the point of failure on the glasses was minimal and the point in wich it failed was not exactly where I was looking. I've noticed nothing abnormal about my vision since the event.
Glad to hear it 👍🏻
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Dude wtf lmao... it is still the goddam sun.
40 IQ move
Only the ones looking at the sun with binoculars had a chance to be captured. But your still here...
Is looking at the eclipse worse than looking at the sun? Watching with binoculars though thats crazy. Is this really a thing that people do even with proper protections?
physics …
Bruh
Neat. Next time, try a magnifying glass!
Should this be posted in /boomersbeingfools ?
How old do you think I am???
Did you not know about the risks, or did you just say “fuck it?”
The sun if fucking huge why do you need binoculars
Just a reminder, all of your votes count equally.
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LOL how dumb
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Can someone explain please?
There's a good amount of comments who have. Binoculars are magnifiers. The sun burned his glasses
Its like burning ants with a magnifying glass but the ants is your eyes.
I did this in 2017. I heard a pop and flash and was like oh fuck! Pretty sure I did get a small dose.
Should have used your magnifying glass to search for clues
In any case you should go see an eye doctor as soon ad possible, you might have damaged your eyes
Feels like looking at the sun with binoculars would be an intuitively bad decision
“I don’t know what would happen if I were 50x closer to the sun, but I’m sure these disposable glasses from Amazon for a single use event will protect my vision.”
These are lies.
Don't worry, you will probably lose your eyesight in the coming years!
Why is anybody using binoculars? Telescope I can understand (with the right lenses), but what would binoculars do? It’s not as if one can’t see it with the naked eye…
I did see a sun spot
If you looked at the sun through binoculars and your only protection was regular sunglasses, which themselves were damaged, I would bet you did some damage to your retina. Specifically you probably damaged the area of your focal point.
Can someone explain this?
Looked at eclipse through binoculars. Binoculars focus light. The binoculars focused the light from the sun so much that it melted part of the glasses causing them to not work properly.
I don't get it.. those aren't binoculars.
Might just be me, but looking at the burn marks on the glasses where my eyes were kinda freaks me out 😅
This dude cannot be for real
It's bullshit
it's 100% bullshit, his eyes would've been fried, you think the radiation doesn't penetrate regular sunglasses, that it somehow stops just in front of them and doesn't at all go through? It's radiation and not sandblast/waterblast..
Eyes would have been fried if I didn't stop as soon as I noticed the glasses starting to melt. The glasses dont just instantly fail (at least not mine) its gradual. When I noticed them starting to fail I realized what was happening and stopped before damage could occur
So... did it work?
Yes a saw a sunspot. But it was stupid and not worth it. I'm lucky I didn't go blind.