If your glasses fail any of these home tests, you should either try and get a refund or discard them. It is worth noting that not all counterfeit solar glasses are fake and therefore, unsafe.

Real solar glasses should be “at least 1,000 times darker than even the darkest regular sunglasses,” advised Rick Fienberg, Project Manager of the AAS Solar Eclipse Task Force.

The American Astronomical Society issued a warning last week saying fake eclipse glasses were "polluting the marketplace." In February, Amazon pulled counterfeit product listings, while a spokesperson ...

Some of the fake glasses also include the name or logo of Solar Eclipse International, Canada, which is Qiwei’s North American distributor. Chile 2019 composite wide Stan Honda ...

Some of the fake glasses also include the name or logo of Solar Eclipse International, Canada, which is Qiwei’s North American distributor. More in U.S. Watch: Drone video shows giant wave ...

Solar eclipse glasses are safe if they comply with the UV, visible, and IR transmittance requirements of the ISO 12312-2 standard for filters for direct observation of the sun, the AAS states.

"If you have eclipse glasses that are safe — that is, that comply with the ISO 12312-2 standard — then you can look through them for as long as you want without risk to your eyes," Feinberg said. "But ...

This article is part of a special report on the total solar eclipse that will be visible from parts of the U.S., Mexico and Canada on April 8, 2024. A day after the American Astronomical Society ...

If you can see anything else, the glasses are fake. With the glasses on, look up at the sun for a fraction of a second. In that brief glance, you should be able to see the sun, ...

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In the photo above, the glasses on the top are fake. The ones on the bottom are real. Experts say counterfeit glasses have black sunglass-like lenses that have straight left and right edges.

Some of the fake glasses also include the name or logo of Solar Eclipse International, Canada, which is Qiwei’s North American distributor.