.TOTAL SOLAR eclipses possess dazzled people considering that time out of mind. The initial document of one, preserved on a clay-based tablet computer discovered at Ugarit, right now in Syria, is actually thought coming from its own age and place to explain either an eclipse that took place in 1375BC or one in 1223BC. Fabulous explanations for eclipses feature the Sunshine being actually consumed by dogs, frogs or even dragons. The truth is even more prosaic. Eclipses are dued to the Moon relocating in between Sunshine and The planet in such a way that casts a shadow on part of The planet's surface area. Why are total ones, like the one intercrossing component of The United States and Canada on April 8th, thus rare?