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Solar eclipse glasses will be essential to ensure safe solar viewing of the Total Solar Eclipse of the Sun on Friday 1 August 2008.
These are brand new safety solar eclipse glasses, they are CE approved and independently tested for safe direct solar viewing. The eclipse glasses comply with the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Directive (Directive 89/686/EEC), details of the EC directive can be found on the DTI web site.
They have explicit usage information printed on the rear to ensure safety and also carry the CE mark.
For safe solar observations the solar eclipse glasses contain Solar Skreen® mylar (silver coloured) lenses to optical density 5.0 set in plain white cardboard glasses with arms. The patented lenses consist of 2-ml scratch resistant, double aluminised Solar Skreen® that filters 99.999% of the ultra-violet and infrared rays of the sun.
Large quantities of solar eclipse glasses are available for sale at a discount. We can also help you make the most of your solar eclipse glasses promotion by having them custom printed with your own full colour design and marketing message. Please Contact Us for details. (Minimum order for customised printing is 5,000 eclipse glasses.)
Total Solar Eclipse : Friday 1 August 2008
What You Will See
The path of the moon's shadow will produce a Total Eclipse beginning in Canada at sunrise (including Grise Fjord, with almost totality on Prince of Wales Island and Resolute) then crosses Greenland, the Arctic Ocean, Novaya Zemlya, Russia (including Smidovich, Yary, Nadym, Novyy Port, Nizhnevartovsk, Kargasok, Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Biysk, Gorno-Altaysk, Onguday, Choya, Inya, Beleshi, Chibit, Kosh Agach, ), Mongolia (including Ugli) and ends at sunset in China (including Altay, Hovd, Jinta, Zhangye, Jinchuan, Wuwei, Luoyang, Pingdingshan).
A partial eclipse will be visible from England and the UK and most of Europe and Asia.
A detailed list of places, times and animations showing what you can expect to see can be found on www.eclipse.org.uk.
Further Information
Excellent sites for further details about solar eclipses and how to view them safely are:
NASA Eclipse Information
Sheridan Williams' Solar Eclipse Web Site
Eclipse Glasses for sale on-line now - www.eclipseglasses.co.uk - our new site.
Manufacturers safety endorsement
Our safe solar eclipse viewing glasses have received an independent safety endorsement from the foremost authority on eye safety during solar eclipses. Dr. Ralph Chou, professor of optometry at University of Waterloo, developed the eye safety standards for viewing solar eclipses.
"SolarSkreen has had an excellent reputation for more than 25 years as a safe filter material for observing the sun and solar eclipses. I recommend it for both beginning and experienced solar observers." Dr. Ralph Chou.
Safety
WARNING : Never observe the Sun with the naked eye or a telescope, binoculars, camera or other optical device. Doing so will seriously damage your eye sight and may lead to permanent blindness. Both the eye and artificial optical devices concentrate the extremely strong ultraviolet light from the Sun onto the retina. This can permanently destroy the retina's ability to detect light. To safely observe a solar eclipse you must use CE approved safety solar eclipse glasses such as those on sale here or use indirect methods such as pin hole projection onto a suitable surface.
Please note these solar eclipse glasses are not suitable for use with optical devices such as telescopes, binoculars or cameras, you need stronger and larger solar eclipse filters than these to protect you from the magnified sun light when using optical devices.
You will put your eye sight at risk by only wearing regular sunglasses or shades to directly view the sun.
Future Eclipses
Organise the holiday of a life time to view a Total Solar Eclipse, considered one of the most breathtaking phenomenons anyone can observe. (Be ready and buy your eclipse glasses now.)
- 7 February 2008 : Annular Solar Eclipse in Antarctica and the southern Pacific Ocean, a partial eclipse will be visible over most of Antarctica, south-west Australia, and New Zealand.
- 1 August 2008 - China Olympic Total Solar Eclipse : seen from Canada at sunrise and then Greenland, Arctic Ocean, Novaya Zemlya, Russia, Mongolia and China at sunset.
- 22 July 2009 - extremely long Total Solar Eclipse - 6 minutes 39 seconds : seen from Arabian Sea just off the west coast of India at sunrise, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, China, Japanese Islands, near Kiribati and Gilbert Islands, near French Polynesia, mid-Pacific at sunset.
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