.OVERALL SOLAR eclipses possess dazzled people since time out of mind. The very first document of one, protected on a clay tablet located at Ugarit, currently in Syria, is felt from its own age and place to describe either an eclipse that took place in 1375BC or one in 1223BC. Legendary descriptions for eclipses consist of the Sun being actually eaten by canines, toads or even dragons. The reality is actually much more prosaic. Eclipses are actually triggered by the Moon relocating in between Sun as well as Earth in a manner that casts a shade on part of Planet's surface area. Why are actually overall ones, like the one crossing part of North America on April 8th, thus rare?