An annular solar eclipse occurred on August 10, 1934, with an eclipse magnitude of 0.9436. 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.
| 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°30′S 34°36′E / 24.5°S 34.6°E |
| Max. width of band | 280 km (170 mi) |
| Times (UTC) | |
| Greatest eclipse | 8:37:48 |
| References | |
| Saros | 144 (12 of 70) |
| Catalog # (SE5000) | 9361 |
Related eclipses edit
Solar eclipses 1931–1935 edit
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]
| Solar eclipse series sets from 1931 to 1935 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||
Inex series edit
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. In the 19th century:
- Solar saros 140: total solar eclipse of October 29, 1818
- Solar saros 141: annular solar eclipse of October 9, 1847
- Solar saros 142: total solar eclipse of September 17, 1876
| Inex series members between 1901 and 2100: | ||
|---|---|---|
 August 30, 1905 (Saros 143) |
August 10, 1934 (Saros 144) |
 July 20, 1963 (Saros 145) |
 June 30, 1992 (Saros 146) |
 June 10, 2021 (Saros 147) |
 May 20, 2050 (Saros 148) |
 May 1, 2079 (Saros 149) |
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In the 22nd century:
- Solar saros 150: partial solar eclipse of April 11, 2108
- Solar saros 151: annular solar eclipse of March 21, 2137
- Solar saros 152: total solar eclipse of March 2, 2166
- Solar saros 153: annular solar eclipse of February 10, 2195
Saros 144 edit
It is a part of Saros cycle 144, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 70 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on April 11, 1736. It contains annular eclipses from July 7, 1880, through August 27, 2565. There are no total eclipses in the series. The series ends at member 70 as a partial eclipse on May 5, 2980. The longest duration of annularity will be 9 minutes, 52 seconds on December 29, 2168.
| Series members 11–21 occur between 1901 and 2100: | ||
|---|---|---|
| 11 | 12 | 13 |
 Jul 30, 1916 |
Aug 10, 1934 |
 Aug 20, 1952 |
| 14 | 15 | 16 |
 Aug 31, 1970 |
 Sep 11, 1988 |
 Sep 22, 2006 |
| 17 | 18 | 19 |
 Oct 2, 2024 |
 Oct 14, 2042 |
 Oct 24, 2060 |
| 20 | 21 | |
 Nov 4, 2078 |
 Nov 15, 2096 | |
Notes edit
- ^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved October 6, 2018.
References edit
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
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