.TOTAL SOLAR eclipses have dazzled folks considering that opportunity out of thoughts. The initial record of one, protected on a clay tablet located at Ugarit, currently in Syria, is strongly believed coming from its own grow older and area to explain either an eclipse that occurred in 1375BC or even one in 1223BC. Epic descriptions for eclipses consist of the Sun being eaten by pets, frogs or dragons. The reality is actually more prosaic. Eclipses are actually dued to the Moon moving between Sun and The planet in a manner that throws a shade on component of The planet's surface area. Why are total ones, like the one intercrossing part of The United States and Canada on April 8th, so uncommon?