I saw the one in Canada back in 2024, I don’t think I have ever witnessed such an amazing phenomenon like that before, a white glowing ring in the sky!! I will see if I can catch the 2027.
After the total eclipse was over, I watched a single honeybee re-orient itself, having temporarily lost its heliocentric bearings (bees "see" the sun's polarity, which helps keep them oriented).
Having also witnessed the 2017 total eclipse, certainly these are memorable events worth traveling into their totalities (could not say the same for partial eclipses).
It's a fascinating learning experience. Birds fall silent and the temperature drops quickly. Our species is too inconsiderate of Sol and nature.
> bees "see" the sun's polarity, which helps keep them oriented.
For those who share the interest, here is an article about bees' eyes:
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/how-bees-use...
> having temporarily lost its heliocentric bearings (bees "see" the sun's polarity, which helps keep them oriented).
Thanks for sharing that, I knew bees see different colors but not the sun’s polarity, I just spent two hours down the rabbit hole reading and watching bees stuff, till I ended up with hornets killing the whole beehives so had to stop!
My first roadtrip in my first hybrid, who knew a Camry could fjord a creek in some backroad national forest. Beautiful. Then we had tacos (instead of sitting in immediate-post traffic) and laughed some more at people, ourselves.
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>they all lined up asking me to see
I was in an area with >4m of totality, so I definitely shared my single pair of binoculars (my small group was really respectful, I got over 2 minutes zoomed in)... because I had kept my eyes closed for several minutes (before totality), I immediately was able to point out to others three red solar flares (for some reason I initially saw flashes of green, but whoTFknows).
I'm glad I shared, because that's when I first noticed Miss Lone Bee. As a then-beekeeper, I made sure to pay attention when the heliosphere returned to Her little part of this incredible world.
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>till I ended up with hornets killing the whole beehives so had to stop!
There's an entire subculture of hornet-murdering inventions (some clever, some which actually work!) to protect hive entrances. But my favorite has to be: the guy who kills them with a tennis racket.