TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The solar eclipse is today and social media users are debating the best fashion to safely capture it on camera.

About of the beauty shots of the solar eclipse will be taken past professional cameras or shot through a telescope. Merely, the most mutual photos nosotros will run into will be taken by the millions of smart phones everyday people are using.So how exercise yous protect your camera?

NASA says if you're using an iPhone or Android smart telephone camera lens you should non demand whatsoever added camera filter. Experts say the lenses on your smart phones are generally very minor and do not admit enough calorie-free on auto focus.

And then, your film will actually come out over exposed and done out but your phone camera should not be harmed.

Where y'all need to be really conscientious is while taking these photos you will no dubiety accidentally glimpse at the full-on solar disk and that could damage your eyes if y'all prolong the viewing.

NASA says to avoid this harmful contact, you should wearable canonical solar eclipse viewing glasses.

You can detect a listing of all the canonical glasses for safety viewing of the solar eclipse here.MORE ECLIPSE STORIES-

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