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.
| Descending node | Ascending node | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 114 | September 12, 1931 Partial |
119 | March 7, 1932 Annular | |
| 124 | August 31, 1932 Total |
129 | February 24, 1933 Annular | |
| 134 | August 21, 1933 Annular |
139 | February 14, 1934 Total | |
| 144 | August 10, 1934 Annular |
149 | February 3, 1935 Partial | |
| 154 | July 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]
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.
 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
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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