.TOTAL SOLAR eclipses possess dazzled people due to the fact that opportunity out of mind. The 1st file of one, protected on a clay tablet discovered at Ugarit, currently in Syria, is felt coming from its age and also location to explain either an eclipse that took place in 1375BC or even one in 1223BC. Epic descriptions for eclipses feature the Sunlight being actually eaten by canines, frogs or monsters. The reality is even more prosaic. Eclipses are actually triggered by the Moon relocating in between Sunlight and The planet in a manner that throws a darkness on portion of Planet's surface. Why are actually complete ones, like the one crossing aspect of The United States on April 8th, therefore uncommon?