.COMPLETE SOLAR eclipses have impressed folks considering that time out of mind. The first record of one, maintained on a clay-based tablet computer discovered at Ugarit, currently in Syria, is actually believed coming from its own age and also place to define either an eclipse that took place in 1375BC or one in 1223BC. Epic descriptions for eclipses feature the Sunlight being actually eaten by dogs, frogs or even dragons. The reality is more prosaic. Eclipses are brought on by the Moon relocating in between Sunlight and also Planet in such a way that throws a shadow on aspect of Earth's surface. Why are total ones, like the one intercrossing aspect of North America on April 8th, so unusual?