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People should be aware that NASA is only standing behind 4 companies making glasses as being 100% and in compliance with their guidelines. You can google, I don't remember the names, but I paid $14 on Amazon for them and I doubt the $2 ones at Lowe's, which don't advertise the proper ISO #, are in compliance. I sent back my made-in-China glasses I originally got on Amazon because they don't have the proper # on them. https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/safety
The $2 Lowe's ones are certified...they're from American Paper Optics.
People should be aware that NASA is only standing behind 4 companies making glasses as being 100% and in compliance with their guidelines. You can google, I don't remember the names, but I paid $14 on Amazon for them and I doubt the $2 ones at Lowe's, which don't advertise the proper ISO #, are in compliance. I sent back my made-in-China glasses I originally got on Amazon because they don't have the proper # on them. https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/safety
You definitely overpaid if you paid $14 for eclipse glasses. I got mine months ago online from eclipse2017.org and paid like $15-$20 for 10 pair of ISO compliant ones!
You definitely overpaid if you paid $14 for eclipse glasses. I got mine months ago online from eclipse2017.org and paid like $15-$20 for 10 pair of ISO compliant ones!
They don't have to cost much to be right.
The ones on Amazon are usually in groups not single ones so it probably wasn't $14 for one.
“This is an issue. This is really an issue, but it’s not advertised. … Yeah, all the maps are wrong,” Mike Kentrianakis, who is the solar eclipse project manager for the American Astronomical Society and who routinely consults with NASA, told The Star.
“This is an issue. This is really an issue, but it’s not advertised. … Yeah, all the maps are wrong,†Mike Kentrianakis, who is the solar eclipse project manager for the American Astronomical Society and who routinely consults with NASA, told The Star.
I am planning to close the drapes and maybe take a nap. I don't trust those special glasses and it could cause major damage to your retina if you look at it. Better safe than sorry is my motto.
All the more reason to aim for the center of the path!
Yes! I may adjust my plans. And I better bring my work laptop with me because I don't know that I'm going to make it back to Durham for Tuesday morning.
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I am planning to close the drapes and maybe take a nap. I don't trust those special glasses and it could cause major damage to your retina if you look at it. Better safe than sorry is my motto.
I don't know if you're real, but I kind of adore your posts.
I'm afraid a lot of people will never make to the center because of traffic.
Worried about that as well. It would be such a shame to drive that way and be stuck in traffic seeing the same thing you'd see here.
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