{"id":734914,"date":"2026-08-11T20:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/734914\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T20:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:58:09","slug":"solar-eclipse-glasses-sold-out-everywhere-as-people-look-for-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/734914\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar eclipse glasses &#8216;sold out everywhere&#8217; as people look for alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People across Scotland have been frantically scrambling to find the right kind of protective eyewear as the UK prepares for the best view of a solar eclipse in nearly three decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Up to 95% of the Sun will slowly disappear behind the Moon on Wednesday evening, in the most dramatic partial eclipse visible from the UK since August 1999.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is important never to look directly at the Sun as even brief exposure can cause lasting damage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But most high street stores have sold out of eclipse glasses and online shoppers who track down a pair risk them not being delivered in time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Moon will start to move in front of the Sun in Scotland at about 18:00, with the whole event expected to last about two hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But even one glimpse at the Sun can be really dangerous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eclipse glasses offer protection from harmful rays of sunlight as the Sun can damage the retina and lead to vision problems. <\/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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Previously, newspapers have given away free pairs for major events and school children have been pictured gazing up at the Sun wearing them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People across Scotland have been frantically scrambling to find the right kind of protective eyewear as the UK&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-734914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734914","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=734914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}