Solar eclipse of August 10, 1934
Map
Type of eclipse
NatureAnnular
Gamma−0.689
Magnitude0.9436
Maximum eclipse
Duration393 sec (6 m 33 s)
Coordinates24°30′S 34°36′E / 24.5°S 34.6°E / -24.5; 34.6
Max. width of band280 km (170 mi)
Times (UTC)
Greatest eclipse8:37:48
References
Saros144 (12 of 70)
Catalog # (SE5000)9361

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 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]

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

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. 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

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

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.

Notes

  1. ↑ 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

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