| Solar eclipse of August 21, 1933 | |
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| Type of eclipse | |
| Nature | Annular |
| Gamma | 0.0869 |
| Magnitude | 0.9801 |
| Maximum eclipse | |
| Duration | 2m 4s |
| Coordinates | 16.9N 95.9E |
| Max. width of band | 71 km |
| 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 partially obscuring Earth's view of the Sun. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun, causing the sun to look like an annulus (ring), blocking most of the Sun's light. An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region thousands of kilometres wide.
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This set of solar eclipses repeat approximately every 177 days and 4 hours at alternating nodes of the moon's orbit.
| Descending node | Ascending node | |||
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| 114 | September 12,
1931 Partial |
119 | March 7, 1932 Annular |
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| 124 | August 31, 1932 Total |
129 | February 24,
1933 Annular |
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| 134 | August 21, 1933 Annular |
139 | February 14,
1934 Total |
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| 144 | August 10, 1934 Annular |
149 | February 3,
1935 Partial |
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| 154 | July 30, 1935 Partial |
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It is a part of Saros cycle 134, repeating every 18 year, 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]
Series members 38-48 occur between 1901 and 2100:
| 38 | 39 | 40 |
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 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 | |
 November 15, 2077 |
 November 27, 2095 |
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 synchonization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee). However, groupings of 3 inex cycles (≈ 87 years minus 2 months) comes close (≈ 1,151.02 anamolistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.
Inex series members between 1901 and 2100:
 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) |
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