If your serious about Solar Eclipses

[quintessentone]

You have a point.  I just think of myself as the viewer, carelessly 'scanning around' and inadvertently blinding myself because: hey it's me I'm talking about here.  So, the cautionary note was just a reflection of that.  I can't imagine it's like they're going to be close, or you wouldn't see the comet at all... it just not that bright.

It was information I got from an astronomy site where they were instructing people how to view the comet during the eclipse, to me it just seemed an okay thing to do because of them giving us instructions how to view it without any warning of protecting one's eyes. That's my reasoning at any rate.