{"id":733732,"date":"2026-08-10T18:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733732\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T18:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:20:09","slug":"when-and-where-to-see-the-solar-eclipse-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733732\/","title":{"rendered":"When and where to see the solar eclipse in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is important to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cbbc\/watch\/solar-eclipse-and-how-to-view\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">never look directly at the <\/a>S<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/cbbc\/watch\/solar-eclipse-and-how-to-view\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">un<\/a> and follow proper guidance for safely viewing the eclipse. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eclipse glasses &#8211; which will be handed out at events across Scotland hosted by astronomical societies or bought online &#8211; can offer protection from harmful rays of sunlight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Legitimate pairs will have safety certification ISO 12312-2 or ISO 12312-2:2015 printed somewhere on the glasses, according the Royal Observatory Greenwich. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Regular sunglasses do not provide adequate protection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Even if you don&#8217;t feel like it is painful to look at the Sun, it is still really damaging to the retina,&#8221; Heymans said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is a two-hour extravaganza as the Moon slowly covers the Sun and then moves away again so it is not just one glimpse, and it is really dangerous to keep looking.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added that there was a temptation to look at the Sun through the cloud but even that could harm the eyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following the 1999 total solar eclipse, the Royal College of Ophthalmologists reported about 70 cases of people experiencing vision problems after watching the eclipse. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The college said about 40% of those people had looked at it for less than a minute. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is important to never look directly at the Sun and follow proper guidance for safely viewing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-733732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}