Solar eclipse of August 21, 1933
Solar eclipse of August 21, 1933 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Annular |
Gamma | 0.0869 |
Magnitude | 0.9801 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 124 s (2 min 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. Annularity was visible from Italian Libya (today's Libya), Egypt, Mandatory Palestine (today's Israel, Palestine and Jordan) including Jerusalem and Amman, French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon (the part now belonging to Syria), Iraq including Baghdad, Persia, Afghanistan, British Raj (the parts now belonging to Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Myanmar), Siam (name changed to Thailand later), Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia), North Borneo (now belonging to Malaysia), and Australia.
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.[1]
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 | ||||||
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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 |
Saros 134
This eclipse is a part of Saros series 134, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 71 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on June 22, 1248. It contains total eclipses from October 9, 1428 through December 24, 1554; 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 72 as a partial eclipse on August 6, 2510. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.
The longest duration of totality was produced by member 11 at 1 minutes, 30 seconds on October 9, 1428, and the longest duration of annularity will be produced by member 52 at 10 minutes, 55 seconds on January 10, 2168. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.[2]
Series members 32–53 occur between 1801 and 2200: | ||
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32 | 33 | 34 |
June 6, 1807 |
June 16, 1825 |
June 27, 1843 |
35 | 36 | 37 |
July 8, 1861 |
July 19, 1879 |
July 29, 1897 |
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 | 49 |
November 15, 2077 |
November 27, 2095 |
December 8, 2113 |
50 | 51 | 52 |
December 19, 2131 |
December 30, 2149 |
January 10, 2168 |
53 | ||
January 20, 2186 |
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.
Series members between 1801 and 2200 | ||
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November 9, 1817 (Saros 130) |
October 20, 1846 (Saros 131) |
September 29, 1875 (Saros 132) |
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) |
April 23, 2107 (Saros 140) |
April 1, 2136 (Saros 141) |
March 12, 2165 (Saros 142) |
February 21, 2194 (Saros 143) |
Notes
- ^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
- ^ "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 134". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
References
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC