We do NOT have any eclipse glasses to give away. Please do NOT ask us for donations of solar viewers!
You might be able to find free eclipse glasses at your local library, amateur-astronomy club, science museum, or planetarium. If you're at a school, you could ask your PTA/PTO to buy some for your students and staff. Or perhaps you could find a local business to buy some for your school.
Looking for eclipse glasses or other solar filters? See our list of suppliers of safe solar viewers.
Are you concerned about the safety of your eclipse glasses/solar viewers? Please review the following pages carefully:
As noted on that second page, if a supplier isn't on our "safe list," that doesn't mean their products are unsafe — only that we have no knowledge of them or that they haven't convinced us that they're safe. With the eclipse almost here, we cannot investigate additional vendors. Please do not ask us whether the viewers you've already bought are safe; we will not reply. Refer to the pages linked above (especially the second one), remember "buyer beware," and replace any glasses/viewers that you aren't sure are safe.
To contact the AAS Solar Eclipse Task Force with other questions or comments, please use this form — but recognize that with the eclipse upon us, we may not be able to reply in a timely fashion (or at all). Thanks for your understanding.