Solar eclipse of August 21, 1933

Solar eclipse of August 21, 1933
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature Annular
Gamma 0.0869
Magnitude 0.9801
Maximum eclipse
Duration 124 sec (2 m 4 s)
Coordinates 16°54′N 95°54′E / 16.9°N 95.9°E
Max. width of band 71 km (44 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse 5:49:11
References
Saros 134 (39 of 71)
Catalog # (SE5000) 9359

An annular solar eclipse occurred on August 21, 1933. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide.

Related eclipses

Solar eclipses 1931-1935

Each member in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1931-1935
Descending node   Ascending node
114September 12, 1931

Partial
119March 7, 1932

Annular
124August 31, 1932

Total
129February 24, 1933

Annular
134August 21, 1933

Annular
139February 14, 1934

Total
144August 10, 1934

Annular
149February 3, 1935

Partial
154July 30, 1935

Partial

Saros 134

It is a part of Saros cycle 134, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on June 22, 1248. It contains total eclipses from October 9, 1428 through December 24, 1554 and hybrid eclipses from January 3, 1573 through June 27, 1843, and annular eclipses from July 8, 1861 through May 21, 2384. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on August 6, 2510. The longest duration of totality was 1 minutes, 30 seconds on October 9, 1428.[1]

Series members 38-48 occur between 1901 and 2100:

38 39 40

August 10, 1915

August 21, 1933

September 1, 1951
41 42 43

September 11, 1969

September 23, 1987

October 3, 2005
44 45 46

October 14, 2023

October 25, 2041

November 5, 2059
47 48

November 15, 2077

November 27, 2095

Inex series

This eclipse is a part of the long period inex cycle, repeating at alternating nodes, every 358 synodic months (≈ 10,571.95 days, or 29 years minus 20 days). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Inex series members between 1901 and 2100:


September 9, 1904
(Saros 133)

August 21, 1933
(Saros 134)

July 31, 1962
(Saros 135)

July 11, 1991
(Saros 136)

June 21, 2020
(Saros 137)

May 31, 2049
(Saros 138)

May 11, 2078
(Saros 139)

Notes

References

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