As Lou Tomososki and a friend walked home from Marshall High School in Oregon one afternoon in 1962, they gazed up at the sky. For weeks, everyone had been talking about the partial solar eclipse and the teens wanted to witness it. For a few seconds, they looked at the sun as a sliver of the moon slid over its surface.
While watching, he saw flashes of light, much like he would after having a picture taken with a camera with a flashbulb. He had no idea those flickers would lead to permanent damage.
“We both got burned at the same time,” Tomososki told TODAY. “He got the left eye and I got the right eye.”
While Tomososki’s teachers warned him to use a pinhole projector box, which creates a reflection of the eclipse for safe viewing, he didn’t heed the warning. Even today, the 70-year-old Oregon City man struggles to see if he relies only on his right eye. Read more on TODAY (external link).
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Make sure you get legitimate solar glasses. A lot pf people made a bog mistake. See the story about “Vanderbilt University Recalls 8,000 Eclipse Viewing Glasses” at >> http://gizmodo.com/vanderbilt-university-recalls-8-000-eclipse-viewing-gla-1797935825/amp <<
Why is this the only guy in any media that was effected by the eclipse? Suspicious…
Suspicious??? Huh are you a paraniod weirdo? Im sure there was more people who suffered from the 1962 eclipse . some are probably dead and some are at home not knowing that there suppose to contact the media somewhere to please your conspirecy.