Eye Safety During an Eclipse
FPS will provide all students with ISO 12312-2 certified eye protection
Since we will not experience totality in Fayetteville, it will never be safe to look at the sun without specialized eye protection. If you travel to an area of totality, it is only safe to look at the sun during the brief total phase of a total solar eclipse, when the Moon completely blocks the Sun’s bright face, Viewing any part of the bright Sun through a camera lens, binoculars, or a telescope without a special-purpose solar filter secured over the front of the optics will instantly cause severe eye injury.
Do NOT look at the Sun through a camera lens, telescope, binoculars, or any other optical device while wearing eclipse glasses or using a handheld solar viewer — the concentrated solar rays will burn through the filter and cause serious eye injury.
Do NOT use eclipse glasses or handheld viewers with cameras, binoculars, or telescopes. Those require different types of solar filters. When viewing the partial phases of the eclipse through cameras, binoculars, or telescopes equipped with proper solar filters, you do not need to wear eclipse glasses. (The solar filters do the same job as the eclipse glasses to protect your eyes.)
Safety Glasses
While Fayetteville Public Schools do not endorse any vendor of solar safety glasses, we recommend you purchase them from a reputable vendor. Many vendors on Amazon, eBay, and other online marketplaces sell glasses that had not been properly tested and are shown not to be safe. NASA has created a list of trusted distributors that meet the ISO safety standard.
