I saw a solar eclipse when I was 8 years old. It was amazing seeing the moon pass between the sun and the earth! Have you seen it before?
America had a pretty awesome solar eclipse this past year, was really cool
Awesome! Was it a total eclipse when the disc of the sun was completely covered by the moon?
yep, seeing the shadows it made that looked like crescent moons everywhere was cool
Wow! I only seen a partial eclipse once, when only part of the sun was covered by the moon. Did you use special glasses?
yea, i took a quick look without them but i know it can be dangerous to some extent
Yes be careful! They are pretty rare, but if the moon was a little closer to earth and in the same orbital plane we would get solar eclipses ever new moon! 
thats really cool i didnt know that
at its orbital nodes twice every draconic month (27.212220 days) while a new moon occurs one every synodic month (29.530587981 days). Solar (and lunar) eclipses therefore happen only during eclipse seasons resulting in at least two, and up to five, solar eclipses each year; no more than two of which can be total eclipses.
Total eclipses are rare because the timing of the new moon within the eclipse season needs to be more exact for an alignment between the observer (on Earth) and the centers of
Solar eclipse of July 28, 1851
The earliest scientifically useful photograph of a total solar eclipse was made by Julius Berkowski at the Royal Observatory in Königsberg, Prussia, on Monday, July 28, 1851. It was the first correctly exposed photographic image taken during totality thereby including the Sun's corona.
Background.
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, casting a shadow on Earth that temporarily obscures part or all of the Sun's disc. Eclipses can occur only when all