.COMPLETE SOLAR eclipses have blown away folks considering that opportunity out of thoughts. The first document of one, preserved on a clay tablet located at Ugarit, now in Syria, is actually thought coming from its age and place to explain either an eclipse that took place in 1375BC or even one in 1223BC. Legendary illustrations for eclipses consist of the Sunshine being eaten by pets, toads or even monsters. The reality is actually more prosaic. Eclipses are actually brought on by the Moon moving in between Sun and Earth in a way that casts a shade on component of Planet's surface area. Why are actually total ones, like the one intercrossing part of North America on April 8th, so rare?