.TOTAL SOLAR eclipses possess impressed folks considering that time out of mind. The first record of one, kept on a clay tablet discovered at Ugarit, right now in Syria, is actually thought from its age and place to describe either an eclipse that occurred in 1375BC or one in 1223BC. Legendary explanations for eclipses consist of the Sunshine being consumed by pets, toads or even dragons. The truth is much more prosaic. Eclipses are actually triggered by the Moon moving between Sunlight and Planet in a way that projects a darkness on component of Earth's surface area. Why are overall ones, like the one intercrossing component of The United States on April 8th, thus rare?