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    Product Name: American Paper Optics Get Eclipsed: The Complete Guide to the Two North American Eclipses
    Product Description: Retired NASA astrophysicist Fred Espenak and his wife Pat offer 50 beautifully illustrated pages on viewing the 2023 and 2024 solar eclipses in the softcover Get Eclipsed: The Complete Guide to Two North American Eclipses from American Paper Optics. Their guide to the 2017 eclipse sold a record-breaking 750,000 copies, and the authors are back with an even bigger and better guide full of fun facts and helpful hints on how to prepare for these amazing events. Two pairs of folding, commemorative, solar safety glasses are included.
    Product SKU: 1750792
    box_dimensions_lxwxh: 9.05 x 6.05 x 0.4"
    dimensions: Not Specified by Manufacturer
    package_weight: 0.21 lb
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    Last Edited by Orangejuice March 26, 2024 at 05:27 PM
    NASA [nasa.gov] links to the American Astronomical Society [aas.org] for a list of North American solar film manufacturers that were approved to ISO 12312-2 and also for approved vendors of those solar filters.

    "These include companies and organizations with which members of the AAS Solar Eclipse Task Force have had good experience as well as other companies and organizations that have demonstrated to our satisfaction that the products they're selling meet the safety requirements of the ISO 12312-2 international standard."

    [Note: NASA and AAS both do not directly approve or certify any solar filter themselves. And as such there is no official NASA or AAS preferred solar filter. ISO certification from an American company is gonna be as good as you can get here.]

    Daystar Filters, the filters sold on this B&H deal, are on the list of North American Manufacturers on the AAS website. And B&H is on the list of Authorized Dealers of Products Made in North America or Germany. 👍👍

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    Eye doc here, do me a favor and just don't stare at the sun.
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    During the last eclipse rush, the market was loaded with gray-market/fake-certified glasses. The American Astronomical Society publishes a list of certified vendors and vetted retailers for eclipse glasses.

    So the question for you is - is it worth risking your permanent vision quality to save $5 from some random Amazon 3rd-party seller? Personally, I'd stick with B&H.
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    Correcting, there's a misconception that eclipses are particularly harmful, as if the light is worse than regular sunlight. That's not the case, the issue is that people are more apt to look/stare.

    Welding glass/helmet/goggles works as well.
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    Azrael_the_Cat
    03-26-2024 at 12:26 PM.
    03-26-2024 at 12:26 PM.
    PSA: one of the best ways to tell if glasses are counterfeit or not is if they have the manufacturers address listed on the glasses themselves. Most of the Chinese manufacturers with dubious home made compliance certificates do not follow the standard requirement with respect to the manufacturing address.

    also, don't buy glasses that say they are NASA approved. NASA does no such thing!

    https://www.news-journalonline.co...095818007/
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    03-26-2024 at 12:31 PM.
    03-26-2024 at 12:31 PM.
    I just paid $8 for these on the last front page deal They're not supposed to go down in price!
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    03-26-2024 at 12:44 PM.
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    Quote from K7S5A :
    Projecting?

    Sorry if this was a joke I missed, but projecting what?
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    03-26-2024 at 12:47 PM.
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    Quote from TheAppleRider :
    Okay, but does anyone actually care about the eclipse because I sure don't. All I hear about is people telling me that everyone cares, but I haven't had a single person come up to me and tell me how excited they are about the eclipse. This honestly just seems like some sort of big oil marketing ploy to sell more gas vehicles if you ask me.

    I am not excited about the eclipse, but many of my friends who are engineers and scientists or just science minded are excited. Many of them are traveling to Ohio or Texas.

    I think the message here is you need new friends LOL

    But in all seriousness the eclipse glasses industry will sell 50m ish units. That's not insignificant.
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    03-26-2024 at 01:10 PM.
    03-26-2024 at 01:10 PM.
    Quote from J03 :
    I just paid $8 for these on the last front page deal They're not supposed to go down in price!

    Same. This eclipse is casting a shadow on my finances
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    03-26-2024 at 01:53 PM.
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    Quote from Dr. J :
    Correcting, there's a misconception that eclipses are particularly harmful, as if the light is worse than regular sunlight. That's not the case, the issue is that people are more apt to look/stare.

    Welding glass/helmet/goggles works as well.

    Sooo... Ignore the actual, medically trained professional eye doctor, strap on a welding helmet and FTW... Got it! 😁
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    03-26-2024 at 02:13 PM.
    03-26-2024 at 02:13 PM.
    Quote from unicowmilker1 :
    Ive never seen a welders mask that was clear enough to see anything far away, let alone clean enough lol. I'd rather just watch it through a camera lens and screen or something along those lines. It's only a once in a lifetime event but I wouldn't bother relying on something so obscure.
    Be aware that the direct solar exposure will destroy your phone or camera sensor also. They do make reasonably-priced solar filters for them though. Celestron makes slip-on SLR filters for ~$20, and the adhesive ones for smartphones go for ~$10. Enjoy!
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    03-26-2024 at 02:15 PM.
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    Can i put these over my camera lens?
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    03-26-2024 at 02:20 PM.
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    Quote from TheAppleRider :
    Okay, but does anyone actually care about the eclipse because I sure don't. All I hear about is people telling me that everyone cares, but I haven't had a single person come up to me and tell me how excited they are about the eclipse. This honestly just seems like some sort of big oil marketing ploy to sell more gas vehicles if you ask me.
    Try finding a flight to or from any airport in driving distance of totality +/- 2 days from the eclipse. Flights to Dallas and Austin we're scarce a month ago. Now they're all but impossible to find. Ditto for rental cars - I've never seen fully sold-out airport car rentals until booking one recently. Most people may not be willing to make the effort, but plenty are.
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    03-26-2024 at 02:23 PM.
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    Quote from lilbruce32 :
    Can i put these over my camera lens?
    On a phone perhaps, but it will be a poor solution. I didn't have a great experience trying that last time around. B&H has pretty cheap solutions designed for cameras.
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    03-26-2024 at 03:21 PM.
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    Quote from ShengD :
    During the last eclipse rush, the market was loaded with gray-market/fake-certified glasses. The American Astronomical Society publishes a list of certified vendors and vetted retailers for eclipse glasses.

    So the question for you is - is it worth risking your permanent vision quality to save $5 from some random Amazon 3rd-party seller? Personally, I'd stick with B&H.
    Thanks for this. I checked the AAS website, and Daystar is on their list as approved manufacturers. And B&H Photo is listed as an authorized reseller. So these all seem pretty safe. Again, thanks for the tip!
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    Quote from dealmeister3000 :
    I don't think anyone thinks the rays themselves are more harmful. And it isn't just that you can tolerate looking at it longer it is also the fact your pupils dilate due to visible light being less. So your natural protective mechanism of constricting your pupils is defeated letting in other harmful wavelengths of light.

    You have clearly never asked this question to an average American.
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    Quote from MemorableLake5902 :
    You have clearly never asked this question to an average American.

    Yeah.. Lol. Perhaps not.
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    Quote from OrangeHealth210 :
    I'd only go with ones from NASA
    All, stay away from anything that says "NASA Approved"- NASA can't and does NOT approve jack squat!! This claim is all over the place. It's inconceivable how this is legal, how they can get away with this... Reminds me of the mask claims during Covid.
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