Solar Eclipse Safety Images

Children use solar viewing glasses to watch the Sun. Binoculars and telescopes can ONLY be used to look at the Sun or watch an eclipse when used with solar filters specially designed for that purpose. Wearing solar viewing glasses will not protect your eyes when used with binoculars or telescopes – you must have an appropriate filter. Credit: Steele Hill

People use a telescope to project an image of the Sun in preparation for the annular solar eclipse of Sept. 1, 2016, in Katavi National Park in Tanzania. Binoculars and telescopes can ONLY be used to look at the Sun or watch an eclipse when used with solar filters specially designed for that purpose. Wearing solar viewing glasses will not protect your eyes when used with binoculars or telescopes – you must have an appropriate filter. Credit: NASA/Ryan Milligan

Watching the total solar eclipse of Mar. 29, 2006, in Antalya, Turkey. Binoculars and telescopes can ONLY be used to look at the Sun or watch an eclipse when used with solar filters specially designed for that purpose. Wearing solar viewing glasses will not protect your eyes when used with binoculars or telescopes – you must have an appropriate filter. Credit: NASA/Ryan Milligan
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Photographers
- Bill Ingalls (ICP Systems)
- Genna Duberstein (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Joy Ng (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Mary P. Hrybyk-Keith (TRAX International)
- Nick Farrar-Foley (Self)
- Robin Cordiner (Self)
- Robin Thorton (Self)
- Ryan Milligan (University of Glasgow)
- Sean Simmons (Self)
- Steele Hill (Wyle Information Systems)
- Stephen Ramsden (Self)