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Chris Hartenstine from NASA's Glenn Research Centre in Ohio says, When youre wearing the eclipse glasses, and you look up at the sun, you will, even on the slightest sliver, you will see the glow of the sun on the edge of that disc, adding, When that is completely out, give yourself another couple of seconds and then you can take them off...
Rick Fienberg, the project manager of the AAS Solar Eclipse Task Force, said in a statement, Solar filters are at least 1,000 times darker than even the darkest regular sunglasses...
To avoid permanent damage to your eyes, you should view the partial eclipse phases only through protective glasses or hand-held solar viewers..
Until recently, the only counterfeit products we knew of were cardboard-frame eclipse glasses made by an unidentified factory in China but printed with Mfg. by: American Paper Optics (APO) on them, the AAS added..
APO is one of the major U.S. manufacturers of safe solar viewers and prints its name and address on its eclipse glasses, whereas the Chinese copycat products have APOs name but not its address..
