New Delhi, July 22 - The excitement of the century's longest total solar eclipse was quite evident from the sales of Gnomon Astrotech, a Delhi based firm that sold a record 50,000 solar goggles across India in just two days.

The company imported a large number of solar goggles, solar filter films and telescopes from a US-based firm to meet the huge demand during the celestial spectacle.

'We were expecting a large sale of solar viewing gadgets during the total solar eclipse. We had demands pouring in across India. We are the only authorized company to sell these gadgets in Delhi,' Gitanjalee, an executive in the operations department of Gnomon Astrotech, told IANS.

The firm provided thousands of solar goggles to Nehru Planetarium, Patna Planetarium, Lucknow Planetarium and many other amateur astronomical societies.