will a solar eclipse blind you if you look at it?

Answer 1

The Sun in general will blind you if you look directly at it for more than a few seconds. Actually, during the total part of a solar eclipse, it is mostly safe to look at it with the naked eye, but it's still not advisable (partly because totality doesn't last very long, so you risk still looking at it when it comes out of totality).

Answer 2

The sun could blind you if you stare at it. Most of the time we know better than to stare at the sun but a solar eclipse tricks some into looking at it directly. And as soon as the sun pops out from behind the moon you risk getting serious eye damage. Always use protection when looking at the sun. During an eclipse or otherwise.

Answer 3

When you try to look at the sun under ordinary conditions, your body protects your eyes by giving you pain so you look away. During an eclipse, looking at the sun is not painful, but the dangerous, blinding, ultra-violet rays are still there. To be triply safe during a solar eclipse, use approved eclipse glasses that block the ultra-violet, use only one eye, and don't stare. You can also view a solar eclipse safely by looking at an image of it cast on a screen by a telescope, binoculars, or a pinhole camera. An eclipse that blinds a pregnant woman will have no effect on the baby. The blindness is purely the effect of ultra-violet rays destroying the retina of the viewer. The baby may feel the effects of the distress the woman undergoes afterwards. Looking at a sun close to the horizon is less dangerous than looking at one overhead. Near the horizon the sun's rays pass through much more atmosphere than when overhead, and it's the atmosphere that removes ultra-violet.

Answer 4

The Sun can be viewed safely with the naked eye only during the few brief seconds or minutes of a total solar eclipse.
Even when 99% of the Sun's surface is obscured during the partial phases of a total eclipse, the remaining photospheric crescent is intensely bright and cannot be viewed safely without eye protection.
The Sun can be viewed directly only when using filters specifically designed for this purpose.

Answer 5

If you directly look at the sun for some time during solar eclipse, your eyes will be adversely affected and you may even become blind.

Answer 6

Does the sun blind you when you look at it? No. So why should something blocking the sun blind you?

Answer 7

if it doesn't make you go blind, my mom is a spaz. she once held back all the kids in my family from going to school because a solor eclisp was going to happen that day, she kepts us all home, told us to stay in the basement, and put up thick quilt blankets over every window!

dang she was a crazy mom.

Answer 8

Could if you look at it with the naked eye. Always use protection when observing the sun.

Answer 9

Yeah I believe it can cause u some problems

Answer 10

It will hurt your eyesight if you look at it for to long