.COMPLETE SOLAR eclipses possess dazzled people since time out of mind. The very first record of one, protected on a clay-based tablet computer discovered at Ugarit, currently in Syria, is actually believed coming from its own age and place to explain either an eclipse that happened in 1375BC or one in 1223BC. Epic descriptions for eclipses feature the Sunshine being actually consumed by pets, toads or even dragons. The truth is more prosaic. Eclipses are actually brought on by the Moon relocating between Sunlight and also The planet in a way that projects a darkness on portion of Planet's area. Why are complete ones, like the one intercrossing portion of North America on April 8th, therefore uncommon?