.TOTAL SOLAR eclipses have impressed people due to the fact that opportunity out of mind. The 1st document of one, protected on a clay-based tablet discovered at Ugarit, currently in Syria, is actually strongly believed from its age and also location to explain either an eclipse that took place in 1375BC or one in 1223BC. Famous illustrations for eclipses consist of the Sunlight being actually consumed through canines, toads or even monsters. The reality is actually much more prosaic. Eclipses are actually brought on by the Moon moving in between Sunshine and also Planet in a way that casts a darkness on part of Earth's surface area. Why are actually overall ones, like the one crossing portion of The United States and Canada on April 8th, therefore unusual?