Here you'll find links to selected suppliers of solar viewers and filters that you can be confident are safe when used properly. These include companies and organizations with which members of the AAS Solar Eclipse Task Force have had good experience as well as other companies and organizations that have demonstrated to our satisfaction that the products they're selling meet the safety requirements of the ISO 12312-2 international standard.
Press Release, March 22, 2024: "American Astronomical Society Warns of Counterfeit & Fake Eclipse Glasses"
We have pared down our list to give preference to North American manufacturers and importers and their major authorized resellers; after all, the April 8th solar eclipse is almost exclusively a North American event, and this site is a service of the American Astronomical Society. We also highlight some German companies that astronomers all over the world have been patronizing contentedly for decades.
If you don't see a vendor listed on this page, it does not mean their products are unsafe — with so many sellers out there, it's impossible for us to vet them all.
As of February 8th — T (totality) minus 2 months — we are no longer adding vendors to this page. Any company worthy of your business should have established itself well before last October's annular solar eclipse across the Americas, let alone well before this coming April's eclipse!
Important: We do not recommend searching for eclipse glasses on Amazon, eBay, Temu, or any other online marketplace and buying from whichever vendor offers the lowest price. Before you buy a solar viewer or filter online, we recommend that you make sure that (1) the seller is identified on the site and (2) the seller is listed on this page.
For instructions on how to observe the Sun safely, see our main safety page and our pages on pinhole and optical projection and viewing through optics.
Eclipse Glasses & Handheld Solar Viewers | Solar Filters for Optics | Solar Filters for Smartphones | Solar Optical Projectors
Eclipse Glasses, Handheld Solar Viewers & Solar Filter Sheets/Rolls
The following companies manufacture or import eclipse glasses, clip-on solar viewers, handheld solar viewers, and/or sheets or rolls of solar-filter material for direct viewing of the Sun's bright face. Some offer custom printing, though the number that do is rapidly dwindling as the April 8th solar eclipse approaches and manufacturers reach capacity. We have intentionally randomized the listings within each subsection so as not to give an unfair advantage to companies whose names put them near the top of alphabetized lists. The order of listings will be randomly shuffled once a week through the beginning of April.
Be sure to read our safety tips before using eclipse glasses or handheld solar viewers.
North American Manufacturers
These companies manufacture their own solar-filter film and/or use one of the other company's films to produce eclipse glasses and/or handheld solar viewers, except as noted below.
- American Paper Optics / eclipseglasses.com
- Rainbow Symphony
- American PaperWear (Solar Rollens viewers)
- Grafix Plastics (sheets & rolls, wholesale only)
- Halo Eclipse Spectacles*
- Celestial Optical (EclipseGuard glasses^ | SolarShield sheets)
- Thousand Oaks Optical
- Seymour Solar (Hyperion sheets)
- Flip'n Shades (clip-ons for baseball caps)
- DayStar Filters
*This U.S. company produces innovative 3-in-1 interchangeable blue-light-blockers + sunglasses + eclipse glasses that remain wearable post-eclipse. They feature detachable, safe solar filters responsibly sourced from China that comply with the transmittance requirements of the ISO 12312-2 standard.
^This U.S. company's eclipse glasses incorporate ISO-compliant filter material that is made in the U.S. but finished, cut, and mounted in frames by a Chinese manufacturing partner.
North American Telescope Companies
These well-known companies sell branded solar viewers made for them by one or more of the manufacturers listed above.
North American Importers from Germany
These well-known companies sell solar viewers or sheets of solar-filter material made for them by long-established manufacturers in Germany.
- Lunt Solar Systems (from TSE17, child-size glasses available too)
- Alpine Astronomical from (Baader Planetarium)
Authorized Dealers of Products Made in North America or Germany
The following companies and organizations sell products made or imported by one or more of the companies listed above. Most are in North America, but we include some in other parts of the world in case people there want to buy locally before traveling to North America for the April 8th solar eclipse. When a country is listed in parentheses, it indicates the seller's primary market, but in most cases they'll ship worldwide. (Note that international shipping may be subject to delays and extra costs.)
- B&H Photo & Video
- AAA Eclipse
- Spectrum Telescope
- Certified Solar Eclipse Glasses 2024
- 3DStereo.com
- Avenues of the Sky
- MyEclipseGlasses.com
- Mt. Lemmon Science Center
- Agena Astro
- Astronomy Plus (Canada)
- Soluna / GSM Sales
- Khan Scope (Canada)
- Eclipse2024.org
- TSE17 child-size glasses available too)
- GreatAmericanEclipse.com
- Big Kid Science
- Cajun Eclipse Glasses
- Woodland Hills Camera & Telescope
- Kosmos Scientific (Mexico)
- VisiSolar
- Arbor Scientific
- Eclipse Texas
- My Science Shop
- Astronomy for Equity
- Telescopes Canada (Canada)
- Experience the Eclipse (Canada)
- American Solar Eclipse Company
- Eclipse Glasses Now
- APM Telescopes (Europe)
- PPE Supply (Canada)
- OZScopes (Australia)
- Eclipse Over America
- OZHut (Australia)
- EclipseVision (Mexico)
- School Health / Prevent Blindness
- Rob Walrecht Productions (Netherlands & Belgium)
- Eclipse-Glass / ca-susm (Canada)
- Eclipse Over Cleveland
- American Science & Surplus
- EarthSky
- Astrozap
- Scientifics Direct
- SolarEclipse.us
- Land Sea & Sky
- Solar-Eclipse.net
- The Eclipse Chaser
- Total Solar Protection
- WebEyeCare.com
- Being in the Shadow (Australia)
- Healthoholic
- Texas Total Eclipse
- Ontario Telescopes & Accessories (Canada)
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- ExtraVision (Australia)
- Solar Eyewear (Canada)
- ICSTARS Astronomy
- Canada Eclipse Glasses / CanadaEclipseGlasses (Canada)
- Solnomo / Prevent Blindness
- All-Star Telescope (Canada)
- Eclipse Glasses USA
- TCB Specialties
- 2024 Eclipse Optical / eclipseoptical.com
- The Planetary Society
- AmericanEclipseGlasses.com
- Mile High Astronomy
- SolarEclipseCanada (Canada)
- NationalEclipse.com
- Celestial Buddies
- EclipseSpecs
North American Large Retail Chains
Some (not all) locations of the following retail chains sell ISO-compliant safe eclipse glasses and/or handheld viewers made by one or more of the companies listed at the top of this page, so you can confidently buy solar viewers if you find them in their stores — but not necessarily on their websites, as some chains use different suppliers for their websites than they do for their stores. (If you can tell that a chain's website is selling one of the brands listed elsewhere on this page, go for it!) Links are provided here to help you locate the retail store nearest you:
- Warby Parker (available in stores [for free!] starting April 1st; while supplies last, limit 2 per person)
- Buc-ee's
- H-E-B
- Menards
- Staples
- Lowes
- Wegmans
- Cracker Barrel
- Walmart
- Kroger
- Meijer
- 7 Eleven
(Mostly) North American Importers and Dealers of Products Manufactured in China
The vendors in the list below sell products manufactured in China. The most-used factories include Cangnan County Qiwei Craft Co., Ltd.; Hangzhou Retsing Eyewear Co., Ltd. (wholesale only); Jaxy Optical Instruments Co., Ltd. (wholesale only); Shenzhen Lionstar Technology Co., Ltd. (wholesale only); and Shenzhen Shihui Tongda Technology Co., Ltd. (selling both wholesale and retail [direct to consumers] and shipping from North American warehouses). We link only to the factories with websites that support direct wholesale and/or retail sales. In the following list, when a country is listed in parentheses, it indicates the seller's primary market.
- Eclipse Glasses Canada (Canada)
- iloveeclipse.com
- PNJ Solar
- Promoful (bulk orders only)
- Solares LLC
- EclipSee
- Adatos
- Ward's Science
- Medical King / Solar King
- Eclipses.mx (Mexico)
- Icarus Shades
- American PaperWear
- GottaHaveIt
- AstroSpecs
- Education Harbour Ltd. (U.K. & Europe; child-size glasses available too)
- 1 NovaLens
- Halo Eclipse Spectacles
- HologramZ (Canada; child-size glasses available too)
- Tember
- SA Flavor / VIVA San Antonio
- Galaxium
- Art of Physics Education
- AmericanEclipseGlasses.net
- Mama's Minerals
- Svbony Optics
- Solarc (Mexico)
- Apostrophe Games
- Cartolano LLC / NiceSolarEclipse.com
- Moon Viewers Eclipse Glasses (U.S. & Canada only)
- PowX
- Texas Eclipses
- Eclipse for a Cause
- Sky & Telescope / Shop at Sky
- Absolute Eclipse / Gravitis
- Bookishbunny (child-size glasses available too)
- Helioclipse
- Eclipse Total (Mexico)
- ilovesolareclipse.com
- Solar Eclipse International, Canada (SEIC)
- Kesseph
- Totality Over TX
- Log Your Own Solar Eclipse
- Solar Eyeglasses
- Solar Eclipse Glasses / Rezos LLC
- Total Eclipse DFW
- The Eclipse Store
- Andbasis Eclipse Glasses
- Edutopia Labs
- Yiwu Diyuan Import & Export Co., Ltd. (bulk/wholesale only)
- 123 Solarwear
- MedOptics
- Your Fun Warehouse (wholesale only)
- Hangzhou Gasan Import & Export Co., Ltd.
- Okie Dokie Trading Co.
- Astronomical League
- Tesyker
- SETI Institute
- NYC Eclipse
- HelioGuardX (Canada)
Free Eclipse Glasses for Libraries
The STAR Library Network (STAR Net), managed by the Space Science Institute, is offering free eclipse glasses along with supporting information, training, and ideas for activities to conduct at eclipse events at U.S. public libraries. Learn more on the Solar Eclipse Activities for Libraries (SEAL) website. If you're a librarian, you can register to participate. If you're an eclipse enthusiast looking for free eclipse glasses, check with your local library to see if they've got any.
Other Sources of Solar Viewers
What if you received eclipse glasses or a handheld solar viewer from a relative, friend, neighbor, or acquaintance? If that person is an amateur or professional astronomer — and astronomers have been handing out eclipse viewers like Halloween candy lately — they're almost certainly ISO-compliant, because astronomers get their solar filters from sources they know and trust (for example, the ones listed on this page). Ditto for professional astronomical organizations (including college and university physics and astronomy departments) and amateur-astronomy clubs.
If you bought or were given eclipse viewers at a science museum or planetarium, or at an astronomy trade show, again you're almost certainly in possession of ISO-compliant filters. As long as you can trace your filters to a manufacturer listed above, you have nothing to worry about. What you absolutely should not do is search for eclipse glasses on the internet and buy whatever pops up in the ads or search results. Buy from one of the sources listed on this page.
Solar Filters for Telescopes, Binoculars & Camera Lenses
Solar filters for optics are meant to go over the aperture, i.e., the front opening, and should be used only by experienced observers. We have intentionally randomized these listings \so as not to give an unfair advantage to companies whose names put them near the top of alphabetized lists. The order of listings will be randomly shuffled once a week through the beginning of April. We have intentionally randomized the listings within each subsection so as not to give an unfair advantage to companies whose names put them near the top of alphabetized lists. The order of listings will be randomly shuffled once a week through the beginning of April. Be sure to read our safety tips before using solar filters with optics!
- Orion
- Seymour Solar
- Kendrick Astro Instruments
- NiSi Lens Filters
- Celestial Optical Sundara Lens Filters
- Meade
- Astronomy Plus
- DayStar Filters
- ICSTARS Astronomy
- Rainbow Symphony
- East Fox Studio
- B&H Photo & Video
- Astrozap
- Svbony Optics
- Khan Scope
- Astro-Physics, Inc.
- Kosmos Scientific
- Explore Scientific
- Baader Planetarium
- Alpine Astronomical (Filter Sheets / Mounted Filters)
- High Point Scientific
- Datyson / Shengzhen Datyson Trading Company Ltd.
- Thousand Oaks Optical
- Mile High Astronomy
- Spectrum Telescope
- APM Telescopes
- Marumi Lens Filters / Argraph Division, Unique Photo
- Celestron EclipSmart
- Astronomics
- Galileo Optics
- Woodland Hills Camera & Telescope
- Telescopes Canada
- Ontario Telescopes & Accessories
- Agena Astro
- All-Star Telescope
Warning: Solar filters designed to thread into an eyepiece at the back end of the telescope — where you put your eye — are dangerous; sunlight concentrated by your optics could destroy it and injure your eye in a flash — literally. If you have such a filter, such as the example shown at right, discard it. We'll say it again: A solar filter must be attached to the front of your telescope, binoculars, or camera lens.
To find telescopes and binoculars specially made for observing the Sun, see the Special-Purpose Solar Binoculars & Telescopes section of our Telescopes & Binoculars page.
Solar Filters for Smartphones
The following products include safe solar filters and Velcro or other fasteners that enable you to temporarily secure a filter over the lens(es) of your smartphone camera.
- Solar Snap (Doug Duncan & American Paper Optics; made in the U.S.)
- This is the first such product to appear on the market. Using the accompanying Solar Snap app, which is available for free in versions for iPhones and Android phones, you can easily choose appropriate exposure settings to shoot photos of the uneclipsed or partially eclipsed Sun through the included solar filter. You can use the app to capture images of the totally eclipsed Sun, too, but you'll need to remove the filter during totality or your images will be blank.
- SafeShot (Grafix Arts / Grafix Plastics; made in the U.S.)
- Made of heavy-duty cardboard, this product has two solar filters: a dark visual filter that you can look through and a lighter filter for your smartphone's camera; this means you can take pictures and view the Sun at the same time. Instructions on the SafeShot website explain how to use your phone's native camera app or a third-party camera app to dial in the appropriate exposure settings. Thanks to the light photographic filter, you should be able to capture images of the inner corona during totality without having to detach your smartphone from the device.
- Smartphone Camera Filter (VisiSolar; made in China)
- This is like Solar Snap (see above) but without the app, i.e., just a solar filter that covers your smartphone's camera lenses. Of course, you can use the free Solar Snap app with it if you wish. You must remove the filter if you want to shoot any pictures during totality! The filter is only for use during the partial phases of the eclipse or when no eclipse is happening. Source of a similar device: East Fox Studio, Solar Eclipse Sunglasses.
- Cell Phone Solar Viewer (Solares, LLC; made in China)
- Like SafeShot (see above) but made of lighter-weight cardboard, this product includes two solar filters so that you can shoot photos and view the Sun with your eyes at the same time. But in this case both filters are dark enough for visual use, so you'll have to disconnect your smartphone from the cardboard if you want to shoot images during totality. With all such products, advance experimentation on the uneclipsed Sun and the full Moon (which is about as bright as the totally eclipsed Sun) is the key to successful imaging, whether using the Solar Snap app (which will work with any of these products), your smartphone's native camera app, or a third-party camera app. Other sources of similar devices: Absolute Eclipse; Solar Eclipse International, Canada.
- Like SafeShot (see above) but made of lighter-weight cardboard, this product includes two solar filters so that you can shoot photos and view the Sun with your eyes at the same time. But in this case both filters are dark enough for visual use, so you'll have to disconnect your smartphone from the cardboard if you want to shoot images during totality. With all such products, advance experimentation on the uneclipsed Sun and the full Moon (which is about as bright as the totally eclipsed Sun) is the key to successful imaging, whether using the Solar Snap app (which will work with any of these products), your smartphone's native camera app, or a third-party camera app. Other sources of similar devices: Absolute Eclipse; Solar Eclipse International, Canada.
Solar Optical Projectors
The following devices are used for indirect solar observation. They use lenses and mirrors to project an image of the Sun onto a white surface. In other words, you don't look through them — you look at them. Be sure to read our safety tips before using a solar optical projector!
- Sunspotter (Starlab / Science First)
- Solarscope (Solarscope USA)
- Build-It-Yourself Safe Solar Viewer (T. R. Richardson, College of Charleston, SC)
And check out the Sun Funnel, an inexpensive do-it-yourself projection device that works with a small telescope to provide a safe solar viewing experience for groups. Download a free PDF with detailed instructions for making and using one.