Solar eclipse of August 10, 1934

Solar eclipse of August 10, 1934
Map
Type of eclipse
Nature	Annular
Gamma	−0.689
Magnitude	0.9436
Maximum eclipse
Duration	393 s (6 min 33 s)
Coordinates	24.5°S 34.6°E / -24.5; 34.6
Max. width of band	280 km (170 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse	8:37:48
References
Saros	144 (12 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)	9361

An annular solar eclipse occurred on August 10, 1934. 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

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse 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.

The partial solar eclipses on April 18, 1931 and October 11, 1931 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set, and the solar eclipses on January 5, 1935 (partial), June 30, 1935 (partial), and December 25, 1935 (annular) occur in the next lunar year eclipse set.

Solar eclipse series sets from 1931 to 1935
Descending node				Ascending node
Saros	Map	Gamma		Saros	Map	Gamma
114	September 12, 1931 Partial	1.506		119	March 7, 1932 Annular	−0.9673
124	August 31, 1932 Total	0.8307		129	February 24, 1933 Annular	−0.2191
134	August 21, 1933 Annular	0.0869		139	February 14, 1934 Total	0.4868
144	August 10, 1934 Annular	−0.689		149	February 3, 1935 Partial	1.1438
154	July 30, 1935 Partial	−1.4259

References

• Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
  • Google interactive map
  • Besselian elements