NASA stresses that safety should be paramount. NASA reports that you can incur serious retinal damage to your eyes if you look directly at the sun during a solar eclipse. Your eyes are an extremely precious commodity. The American Astronomical Society lists eye safety tips and never mentions welding glasses as a way to protect your eyes. All the hardware stores we talked to were sold out of shades as low as shade 4.” The televisions station reported, “NASA recommends only using the darkest shades, 12 or higher, to view the eclipse. Many people find the Sun too bright even in a Shade 12 filter, and some find the Sun too dim in a Shade 14 filter - but Shade 13 filters are uncommon and can be hard to find.Īccording to 11Alive, an Atlanta television station, “Most welding glasses are not strong enough to keep your eyes safe, if you are watching the eclipse with them.” If it’s less than 12 (and it probably is), don’t even think about using it to look at the Sun. If you have an old welder’s helmet around the house and are thinking of using it to view the Sun, make sure you know the filter’s shade number.
These are much darker than the filters used for most kinds of welding. The only ones that are safe for direct viewing of the Sun with your eyes are those of Shade 12 or higher. This is what NASA says about using welding glasses or helmets to watch the eclipse on its safety website:Įxperts suggests that one widely available filter for safe solar viewing is welders glass of sufficiently high number. If you are considering using them, you need to make sure you are following NASA’s safety precautions. Most could be very dangerous to your eyes. A lot of people are wondering: Can you safely wear welding glasses or a welding helmet to watch the solar eclipse? That has some people turning to their own drawers at home. Most retailers are out of solar eclipse glasses, and it’s probably too late to get them online, where you have to watch out for fakes anyway. The Great American Solar Eclipse of 2017 is here. The sun is covered by the moon during a total solar eclipse in the Indian city of Varanasi on July 22, 2009.
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