Monday is the day! In order to view the eclipse without damaging your eyes, you'll need to wear special sunglasses—and counterfeiters are flooding the market with FAKE specs. :-(
"It's a bunch of unscrupulous people cashing in on the eclipse and putting public safety at risk," Richard Fienberg of the American Astronomical Society tells Reuters.
How do you tell if a pair of eclipse shades is legit?
“The lenses of fakes allow the penetration of light from such relatively faint sources as fluorescent lamps, while the only thing one should see through authentic solar-safe filters when looking at objects fainter than the sun is pitch blackness,” reports Reuters.
CBS adds that legitimate sunglasses should bear the icon "ISO 12312-2."
Stay safe.