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I say binoculars. And be careful to use proper solar filters or project an image of the Sun onto a white sheet of paper. If you are lucky enough to see a total eclipse it can safely look without a filter only during the few minutes of totality.
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It depends on which eclipse you are referring to. If you are talking solar eclipse, you don’t want to look at it with either. Looking at the sun at any time is dangerous and very bad for your eyes. It does not matter if there is an eclipse or not. If you want to look at it with a telescope they have solar filters that fit in front of the optical tube. Not all telescopes have this option, and you definitely do not use the old eyepiece sun filters. They were discontinued years ago because they saved your eyes but not your telescope. Regular telescopes were not designed to look at the sun. They do make solar telescopes. A nice relatively inexpensive solar telescope is the PST by Coronado (aka Meade). You can look at the sun safely and also when a solar eclipse happens you can use it as well.
If you are talking about a lunar eclipse (when the Earth’s shadow covers the moon when it is full) you can look at them with both. Binoculars with a tripod would probably give you the best field of view, but if you use a telescope you could really see the shadow move across the moons surface.
Which eclipse?
If you mean the solar eclipse on July 22 (which if you are going to observe it you already know its only visible in India and China), you should only use telescopes with the appropriate filters in place at the front of the telescope (before the light enters the telescope). Watching a solar eclipse with any optical aid without the appropriate filters could result in blindness.
If you mean the penumbral lunar eclipse on July 7, use binoculars or a telescope since only a small part of the moon will be entering the Earth’s penumbra so it won’t be that apparent without optical aid.