.COMPLETE SOLAR eclipses have impressed people because time out of mind. The first report of one, kept on a clay-based tablet computer located at Ugarit, currently in Syria, is actually felt coming from its grow older and site to describe either an eclipse that occurred in 1375BC or even one in 1223BC. Legendary descriptions for eclipses consist of the Sunshine being consumed through pets, frogs or monsters. The fact is more prosaic. Eclipses are caused by the Moon relocating between Sun and also Earth in such a way that casts a shade on aspect of Planet's surface. Why are overall ones, like the one crossing aspect of The United States and Canada on April 8th, so uncommon?