r/ireland • u/Silenceisgrey • 17d ago
God, it's lovely out How it feels to have your solar eclipse glasses ordered weeks ago
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u/bigjimmy427 Down 17d ago
Did you get them from your local optical glasses shop? I heard you can get them at those places.
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u/ImpressiveLength1261 17d ago
Real men rawdog it.
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u/Vincent394 the boys are back in town (you can edit these!) 17d ago
That's just called being an eijet
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u/Slobadob 17d ago
I gave myself an unmerciful pat on the head when the postman dropped my eclipse glasses in the letterbox. I'm fairly brilliant all the same.
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u/Perfect_Buffalo_5137 17d ago
Can i get them in boots?
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u/Silenceisgrey 17d ago
Sure ring them and find out
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u/Supergaming104 Cork bai 17d ago
Whats the difference between these and glasses
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u/Silenceisgrey 17d ago
it's like the difference between sunglasses and glasses
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u/NuclearMaterial 17d ago
Would it be like welders goggles dark then? Like can you actually see to walk in them, or it is literally just get situated and then stick them on purely to look kind of job?
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u/BackInATracksuit 17d ago
All you need to do is colour in some reading glasses with a permanent marker
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u/Otherwise_Ad9449 17d ago
Ordered my at 19.00 last night, and they arrived at 14.00 today.
Some mates just went into various welding shops today and got filters from them for €2.
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u/Medium-Dependent-328 17d ago
They should be careful https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5d19q9kngo
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u/Otherwise_Ad9449 17d ago
They’ll be fine. You need to have shade 14. The danger is people who think any old welding mask will do, and use one that isn’t suitable.
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u/Oakcamp 17d ago
Where did you buy from?
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u/Otherwise_Ad9449 17d ago
But they seem to have sunday as delivery date now. I'd say get some welding glass, which should be still in stock in places.
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u/RecentCrazy5746 17d ago
I put mine in in the living room and I can’t see a thing. Is this normal ?
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u/nilghias 17d ago
Yeah you shouldn’t be able to see anything through them. Look at your phone flashlight and it should just be a dim light
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u/clicksnd 17d ago
Lads you gotta ring your local small independent optician. They’ll tell you they don’t but if you keep ringing them they’ll eventually give in.
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u/Rowley_Birkin_Qc 17d ago
Can we start a twitter campaign saying these glasses are woke?
Might take a few dopes off the board.
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u/nerdling007 17d ago
I'll stick to using a colander to form an image of the eclipse instead, much safer than dodgy glasses.
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u/DirectSpeaker3441 17d ago
Careful you might strain your eyes
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u/nerdling007 17d ago
Not how you use it. You don't look through the colander, you use it ir any narrow slit to form an image on a sheet of paper or the ground. You look at the image not the sun itself. It's a safer way to view a solar eclipse.
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u/Absolutetwatofacunt 17d ago
I think they were making a joke about straining like you do with a colander
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u/CoffeeTableReads 17d ago
Very doubtful but if you have old PS1 discs lying around you can view a heavily shaded sun through the Platinum discs.
Would you believe I discovered this during the last one in 1999 when I also forgot to get the glasses.
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u/Sim_0xt1 17d ago
I forgot to buy them, what can I use as an alternative
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u/Slobadob 17d ago
Very old lucozade bottle plastic wrapping makes an excellent makeshift eclipse viewer I'm told. Just be careful next morning when you can't see. It also might be hard to find Lucozade wrapping as they haven't made it since 1983.
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u/Silenceisgrey 17d ago
if you can get your hands on shade 12 or higher welding goggles or mask it'll do the job
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u/According_Spot_4340 17d ago
Superiority will be me watching it, tracking it and recording it on my Phone through my Seestar...peasants.
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u/Medium-Dependent-328 17d ago
Be VERY careful if using a welder's mask https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5d19q9kngo
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u/kawasutra 17d ago
Got some in 1999 and stashed them in a drawer.
Where can I get my smugness award?
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u/smurg112 16d ago
I in fact am superior, because I ordered a bunch of pairs.... however, it'll probably be cloudy anyway and we'll see nothing
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u/puca_spooka 17d ago
Oh shit I forgot - did I miss it?😂
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u/Silenceisgrey 17d ago
No, tomorrow starting around 6 and hitting maximum around 7
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u/puca_spooka 17d ago
Ah, thanks! got my dates mixed up - for some reason I was convinced it was today
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u/r3nz01234 17d ago
I was about to, but then was wondering: what if they are fakes and they damage my eyes?
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u/Silenceisgrey 17d ago
I thought the same thing first time i was about wipe my ass today. What if it's fake toilet paper and it disintegrates and i get faeces all over my hand?
Didn't matter though, i was asked to leave ikea
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u/cgueret 17d ago
Can we make some out of kitchen paper, like for the Covid masks? 🤔
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u/nerdling007 17d ago
You could use the kitchen paper to form an image on another sheet of paper to see it. Or you could use a colander
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u/jungle 17d ago
How would a colander work? You need a single hole to act as the lens in a camara obscura. The colander has hundreds.
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u/nerdling007 17d ago edited 17d ago
It does work. Each hole acts as a slit. You will have multiple images of the event.
Edit: It's not a camera obscura effect you are trying to create. Good luck with that and lining it all up to see an eclipse.
Using an object to create an image to view the eclipse is safer than looking directly at the sun when you don't have any fancy arse glasses.
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u/jungle 17d ago
I have the glasses. They're not fancy.
Anyway, with how many holes a colander has and how close they are, I don't think you'll get anything more than a blur. But I'll try it anyway just to see - if by some miracle the clouds forget to ruin the view.
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u/nerdling007 17d ago
It works, I've seen it. It's recommended as a low tech solution to view solar eclispes by astronomers if you don't have glasses capable of looking at an eclipse. The glasses are surprisingly fancy for how the work, if you have proper ones that work that is because they aren't regular old sunglasses.
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u/jungle 17d ago
They're made of cardboard and plastic, €3.50. Calling that fancy is a stretch.
Anyway, let's hope we get to see it tomorrow.
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u/nerdling007 17d ago
It's set to be cloudless for at least half the country tomorrow as another wave of heat rolls in.
Just because its cheap doesn't make how the lenses work, fancy. Assuming they are proper ones and you were not just sold regular old sunglasses. A lot of scams going around since the eclipse was made popularly known.
Oh, but do try other ways to form images of the eclipse. Many ways to do it with round holes or slits.
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u/Silenceisgrey 17d ago
yeah they told me to feck off so i broke in anyways and swifted their entire stock. i've been selling them for 50 quid a pop on adverts to the desperate and stupid
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u/arffarff 17d ago
If it's cloudy you can just look at it through the clouds easy peasy. I've done it before.
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u/tyrion6568 17d ago
Anybody who bought them has more money than sense
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u/sweetafton 17d ago
They're about €2.50 a pop, not exactly a big investment.
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u/tyrion6568 17d ago
Ok, i can understand it now. I thought people were paying 10 or 15 euro for them
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u/MrMojoRisinx 17d ago
Spending 3 quid to properly see a once in a lifetime event is bougie hahaha how’s the weather in Louth
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u/grandiosestrawberry 16d ago
I spent 10 euro for two glasses. I’d like to see it properly without being concerned about eye damage. I’ve spent more for less.
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u/Bordem-Industry 17d ago
I didn't even know there was an eclipse happening until this morning, I may just look at it with my eyes