B Can anyone suggest a good website to buy astronomy equipment?

[LightningInAJar]

I am looking into proper and well tested solar glasses for the upcoming total eclipse next year. Also solar film and clip to attach to my camera so I can do a video. I'm scared to just buy randomly on Amazon.

 

[Hyperfine]

I would suggest that you begin by explicitly defining what you are looking for in the products. As an example, a Google search of "best solar glasses" yields a number of lists from places like ThePlanets.org and BBC Sky at Night Magazine with recommendations. Many of those recommended glasses are available at Amazon or other websites that are given.

Same procedure applies to a filter for your camera.

 

[Drakkith]

Any of the popular astronomy/telescope equipment websites should be just what you need. Here's a few I know of:

https://www.telescope.com/
https://optcorp.com/
https://www.astronomics.com/
https://www.highpointscientific.com/

 

[Tom.G]

American Paper Optics makes them in the USA. Their website dedicated to Eclipse glasses is:
https://www.eclipseglasses.com/

I bought a bunch of them for the last eclipse and handed them out to the neighborhood. They at least used to also have viewers without the earpieces to be handheld, since these have a single large rectangular lens they work with cameras too.

I told the neighbors that if they returned the viewers to me, I would keep the for the next eclipse (that's the upcoming one in October).

(The company also does bulk orders, 3D glasses, and custom orders)

Cheers,
Tom

 

[russ_watters]

I just bought some solar filter material from Thousand Oaks Optical, via Amazon.

 

[LightningInAJar]

Awesome. Thanks. Don't want to burn my eyes or camera out. Lol.

 

[EventHorizon]

I know that some libraries do some solar eclipse sponsoring (I think the program is called SEAL), my public library has free solar eclipse glasses. They work out okay