.TOTAL SOLAR eclipses have awed individuals considering that time out of mind. The first report of one, preserved on a clay tablet computer found at Ugarit, now in Syria, is felt coming from its own grow older and also location to explain either an eclipse that happened in 1375BC or even one in 1223BC. Epic illustrations for eclipses include the Sun being eaten through dogs, frogs or monsters. The fact is even more prosaic. Eclipses are actually caused by the Moon moving in between Sunlight and Earth in a way that casts a shadow on aspect of The planet's surface area. Why are complete ones, like the one intercrossing component of The United States and Canada on April 8th, thus rare?