After watching a segment on KOMU channel 8 weather about the upcoming eclipse I learned that not all glasses made for watching the eclipse are adequate or are recommended by NASA. Even though the glasses I brought online for viewing the eclipse and giving out at the MULSA picnic said they were 100% safe for the eclipse they are not.
The only glasses with safety guide lines must have “ISO 12312-2” printed on them only 4 companies have been approved as manufacturing safe solar eclipse glasses: American paper optics, Rainbow symphony, thousand oaks optical, and TSE17. Our glasses did not have this.
Free KOMU 8 eclipse glasses can be pick up at local Dollar General Stores or the Mizzou stores is also selling eclipse glasses for $1 with proceeds going to the astronomy dept.
This and more information about the eclipse can be found on the KOMUTV weather web site.
Sorry about the phony eclipse glasses
Karen Eubanks
MULSA social co-chair