Eclipse ‘Solar’ Glasses
ASTRONOMY IRELAND’S ECLIPSE GLASSES are available at Designist Shop in Dublin 2 on the day of the Eclipse until 5pm.
www.shop.designist.ie/about-us
Price €10 with all proceeds going to the society.
Our Blanchardstown Office(D11 RR62) is CLOSED on Eclipse Day, SO PLEASE DO NOT call to our office on Aug.12th!!!
The glasses are High Quality EU-Certified safe Solar Viewing Glasses. We have a limited quantity.
You should keep these glasses after the eclipse for viewing giant ‘naked eye’ sunspots that appear from time to time.
ALSO NOTE: this is the first of THREE partial eclipse of the Sun visible from Ireland in the next 18 months!
So keep your Glasses safe inside your copy of Astronomy Ireland magazine (perhaps in a drawer or somewhere safe).
There’s also a deep Eclipse of the Moon on Aug. 28th this month!
And, on the night of the big solar eclipse the best meteor shower of year “The Perseids” takes place.
All details of these, and lots more for beginners to see every month, are in our magazine, and the ‘what to see’ is instantly emailed to you when you join, which we want you all to do so you never miss a thing again!
And 2 final things
1) we are on television on the morning of the Eclipse at 7:45am on IRELAND AM (Virgin One) giving a guide to eclipses
2) we ran an event Aug.8th explaining all about eclipses, how photo the eclipse with your smartphone and Eclipse Glasses and where to send your best photo to get it published in the special souvenir issue for the Great 2026 Irish Eclipse!
We RECORDED this talk on video an you can watch it on our youtube channel (link on our website or just click youtu.be/udnMdCjGB9M)
DO NOT look through binoculars or telescopes while wearing eclipse glasses as they give way too bright an image and may even damage the glasses and your eyesight too.
ECLIPSE MAGAZINE: Sign up for Astronomy Ireland magazine to get our guide to the August 2026 ‘almost-total’ eclipse of the Sun, with up to 98% of the Sun covered from the Southwest of Ireland!
This is the deepest Partial Solar Eclipse from Ireland until the full TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN visible from the southwest of Ireland in 2090!
There’ll be almost 30 other partial solar eclipses from Ireland between 2026 and 2090 (and lots of Lunar Eclipses) and we’ll cover them all in Astronomy Ireland magazine of course.
ECLIPSE WATCH: We are planning to set up special telescopes for safe close up viewing of the eclipse in August – you’ll even see all the sunspots peppering the Sun right now. For tickets for a great day out keep checking www.astronomy.ie/events
To see the latest SDO spacecraft image of the Sun (updated hourly) click HERE
SAFE VIEWING – ECLIPSE GLASSES
Of course it can be highly dangerous to view the Sun and a partially eclipsed Sun is just as dangerous – perhaps more so as people will be drawn to looking at it. NEVER look at the Sun with ANY optical aid (binoculars or telescopes) as permanent eye damage can happen instantly. It is not even safe to look at the Sun with just the naked eye and even several pairs of sunglasses should not be used.
High Quality EU-certified safe Solar Viewing Glasses are available from Astronomy Ireland. We have a limited quantity.
You should keep these glasses after the eclipse for viewing giant ‘naked eye’ sunspots that appear from time to time. DO NOT look through binoculars or telescopes while wearing eclipse glasses as they give way too bright an image and may even damage the glasses and your eyesight too.
These are also useful for seeing giant sunspots that occasionally appear on the Sun that we will alert you to on our social media pages.
You can also sign up for a year’s subscription and you will then get future magazines showing all the photos sent in from around Ireland and loads of other things to see in the sky: HERE