SOLAR: Brisbane City Council Story Bridge team leader Pat Menagh watches the eclipse from the top bridge. Picture: Peter Wallis Source: The Courier-Mail
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DOCTORS believe thousands of skygazers have suffered permanent eye damage and vision loss from "sunburnt eyeballs" after yesterday's total solar eclipse.
Eclipse chasers who wake up today with a "black spot" in their vision have some form of eye damage, said eye expert Dr Bill Glasson.
Up to 5 per cent - or 5000 out of every 100,000 viewers - likely watched the cosmic show with the naked eye, studies show.
Even those who wore solar eclipse glasses and stared too closely at the intense rays are at risk.
More than 60,000 eclipse chasers, tourists and locals observed the rare cosmic spectacle in the skies above Cairns and Port Douglas yesterday.
Tens of thousands more watched up to three hours of a partial eclipse the length of Australia's east coast.
About 20 million people worldwide viewed it live on various websites including NASA and couriermail.com.au.
Dr Glasson, president of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists, said previous eclipse studies found irreversible eye damage in every five out of a hundred viewers.
"They will have a blind spot, or black spot, in the middle of their vision when they wake up," said Dr Glasson.
"If it persists for more than a day certainly it will have done some damage. Some may find they have a permanent burn scar on the back of the eyeball and visual loss for the rest of their life."
For North Queensland eclipse watchers, day turned into night for about two minutes.
Some decided to make the event even more memorable with marriage proposals, people rising above the clouds in hot air balloons and tourists watching the event from the decks of cruise ships.
The weather didn't dampen the spirits of those who rose shortly after sunrise to gaze to the heavens and then cheer as darkness fell at 6.38am.
In Kuranda, 1300 gathered on a private property, including more than 40 NASA scientists.
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