= Сообщение: 5099 из 12549 ====================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : Michiel van der Vlist 2:280/5555 05 Aug 17 21:17:52 Кому : Robert Bashe 05 Aug 17 21:17:52 Тема : Eclipse FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:280/5555+59861cae На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:2448/44+5985fcc9 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP850 ================================== ============================================================================== Hello Robert,
On Saturday August 05 2017 19:12, you wrote to Ward Dossche:
RM>>>> lucky me. I could even see a protuberance with my small RM>>>> telescope.
Mv>>> I saw the protuberence with my binoculars. [..] RB> Lucky you... now you aren't blind like Richard and Michiel (you know, RB> of course, that you don't look at the sun - even during an eclipse) RB> without eye protection and possible permanent eye damage.
I am not blind and Richard probably isn't either. And that is not a matter of luck but of proper preparation. One CAN look at the sum with a telescope or binocualars when it is equiped with the proper filters. I had the proper filters. But you only need or want them during the partial phase. During the totality one can safely look at the sun without filters. And so I did. With the filters you can not se the corona or any protubernces. Just watch out for the return of the light.
Did I ever tell you that I studied astronomy as a sideline and that I worked in an eye hospital as a medical physicist?
The university of Utrecht had "the sun" as their object of special interest and the eye hospital using the sun as a repair tool before the advent of the laser....
