Eclipse Optics

This past weekend, we were finally able to sort through the hundreds of thousands of eclipse glasses that were donated to our company following the April total solar eclipse. We worked with Kobi Bons, who elected to use this sorting event as his eagle scout project's call to action. We were fortunate to have over 100 community volunteers show up to help with sorting, inspecting, and packaging ISO certified eclipse glasses. In total, Kobi's team helped us salvage 65,000 good condition ISO compliant pairs of eclipse glasses, which will be donated to schools in South America and Africa. That brings the total number of glasses donated to 150,000 pairs! That's 150,000 people that will get to witness a solar eclipse either in October of this year or in 2025 and 2026. Thank you to everyone who donated and all those who helped out on Saturday! #solareclipse #astronomy #education #science

Eclipse Optics, formerly Eclipse Glasses USA, is excited to announce the commencement of their nationally-recognized eclipse glasses donation program sorting event. In collaboration with a local Eagle Scout project, Eclipse Optics is inviting the Utah public to participate in a significant sorting event on August 24 at 9 AM. The event will be held at 1768 S Industrial Pkwy, Provo, UT 84606. The collected glasses will be inspected and packaged for shipment to South American and African schools who will witness a solar eclipse this year and in 2026.

As we continue to work through the hundreds of thousands of donations we've received, we are beginning to ship out our first batches of donations. The first recipient was the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy (IfA), which hosts solar-viewing STEM events for the public and now uses our ISO eclipse glasses for those events. IfA received 2,000 pairs of eclipse glasses from us, which can be used for the annular eclipse visible in Hawaii this October. We anticipate our next donation batch of ~75,000 pairs will soon go to STEM programs in Africa. If you are in Provo and interested in volunteering, we are currently working with an Eagle Scout candidate on his Eagle project. He'll need quite a few volunteers to go through the volume of donations we've received.

The response to our Eclipse Give Back program has been nothing short of astounding. Nothing really prepared us for the volume of shipments we received right after the eclipse and that we continue to receive today. We stopped keeping track of the donations after we received 400,000 (55 pallets of envelopes and boxes). At that point, we suspended the donation program effective 4/16 due to limited storage space. We anticipate being able to reopen the donation program at the end of July. Last week we began the process of sorting through donations. KSL 5 TV was there to capture the chaos as we attempted to inspect and sort undamaged and ISO certified glasses from those that weren't. Thank you for your generosity and we hope your eclipse experience was amazing. 

Don't miss the April 8th solar eclipse!