Washington –
Watched the American president Donald Trump Monday really without special eclipse viewing glasses in the sun when the moon sure moved? The answer is yes.
The president looked together with his wife Melania and their son Baron to the total solar eclipse from the balcony of the White House, which hundreds of thousands of Americans the last time in their clutches. Although (almost) everyone knows that it is dangerous for your eyes to the natural phenomenon without appropriate spectacles to behold, seemed to Trump that moment to be forgotten.
From the official report of the White House show that Trump during the peak of the eclipse, around 14:39 hours, directly in the sun looked. He spoke a toegestroomd audience, which he to the heaven, fatherless, and without glasses, the spectacle looked at. One of his staff members, he would have shouted: ’do Not look!’ A moment later, decided the president and his family, yet protective glasses.
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Why it is dangerous to be right looking into the sun during an eclipse? The sunlight can retina, irreparable damage, with permanent blindness or visual impairment as a result. Someone who is without glasses in the sun looks, feels no pain because the retina no pijngevoelige nerves. You notice it only after a few hours, when the evil is already done. According to Tjeerd de Faber, kinderoogarts at The Rotterdam eye Hospital, to protect an ordinary pair of sunglasses (that Melania in the first instance, wore red.) insufficient.
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During a solar eclipse is the moon between the sun and the earth, so that the light of the sun is blocked. This was Monday in the middle of the day a few minutes of pitch dark. Only the halo of the sun was still visible. Many Dutch citizens, among whom eclipsjager Gert Cazemier, flew last week to America for that to happen.
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