i saw a solar eclipse when i was 8 years old.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A solar eclipse (as seen from the planet Earth) is a type of eclipse that occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and when the Moon fully or partially blocks (\"occults\") the Sun. This can happen only at new moon when the Sun and the Moon are in conjunction as seen from Earth in an alignment referred to as syzygy. In a total eclipse, the disk of the Sun is fully obscured by the Moon. In partial and annular eclipses, only part of the Sun is obscured. If the Moon were in a perfectly circular orbit, a little closer to the Earth, and in the same orbital plane, there would be total solar eclipses every new moon. However, since the Moon's orbit is tilted at more than 5 degrees to the Earth's orbit around the Sun, its shadow usually misses Earth. The Moon's orbit must cross Earth's ecliptic plane in order for an eclipse (both solar as well as lunar) to occur. In addition, the Moon's actual orbit is elliptical, often taking it far enough away from Earth that its apparent size is not large enough to block the Sun entirely. The orbital planes cross each other at a line of nodes resulting in at least two, and up to five, solar eclipses occurring each year; no more than two of which can be total eclipses.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I loved the last solar eclipse we had, even though the sun wasn't fully obscured by the moon where I live."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I love solar eclipses too, i like to watch it with friends, we make a whole event out of that :D"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The eclipse back in August of 2017 was a bid deal.  We stopped working in order to see \"The Great American Eclipse\" that day."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes we too, friends even take the day off :D total solar eclipses are rare, happening only once every 18 months"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "You think they would be rarer than that, but a lot of them are only a partial obscuration."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes and you only have some time to see it, its finished quickly, a total solar eclipse can last a maximum of 7 minutes and 30 seconds"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That's a long wait just for 7.5 minutes of action.  2029 will be a good year for eclipses. There's going to be four that year."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I didnt know that, i hipe i will be able to see them that year, why do they say that there are between 2 and 5 solar eclipses?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I don't know.  maybe it has to do with what point in the Saros cycle we're in. It kind of fluctuates over a period of a little over 18 years."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I think they are thinking about partial solar eclipses, they are not so amusing as a total one :D"}]