He always wanted to enthuse everyone, just as he had been enthused. He would often buttonhole people if they hadn't heard about the next eclipse and give them a 20-minute lecture on why they should care about it. The best sort of publicity he could have for eclipses was obviously when a good one appeared over America. There was an extremely good one, a total eclipse, in 2017,. It was called the Great American Eclipse, and it went from Oregon to South Carolina. So the next greater eclipse across America, which was going to go from Mexico to the Canadian Maritime, even better than the 2017 one, was coming up in 2024.