Solar eclipse of August 21, 1933


An annular solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's descending node of orbit on Monday, August 21, 1933, with a magnitude of 0.9801. 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. An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. Occurring only 5.6 days after apogee, the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.
Annularity was visible from a small tip of northeastern Italian Libya, Egypt, Mandatory Palestine including Jerusalem and Amman, French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon, Iraq including Baghdad, Persia, Afghanistan, British Raj, Siam, Dutch East Indies, Raj of Sarawak, and Australia. A partial eclipse was visible for parts of Northeast Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Eclipse details

Shown below are two tables displaying details about this particular solar eclipse. The first table outlines times at which the Moon's penumbra or umbra attains the specific parameter, and the second table describes various other parameters pertaining to this eclipse.
EventTime
First Penumbral External Contact1933 August 21 at 02:52:30.3 UTC
First Umbral External Contact1933 August 21 at 03:54:48.4 UTC
First Central Line1933 August 21 at 03:55:58.9 UTC
Greatest Duration1933 August 21 at 03:55:58.9 UTC
First Umbral Internal Contact1933 August 21 at 03:57:09.4 UTC
First Penumbral Internal Contact1933 August 21 at 04:59:51.0 UTC
Equatorial Conjunction1933 August 21 at 05:44:23.7 UTC
Ecliptic Conjunction1933 August 21 at 05:48:11.5 UTC
Greatest Eclipse1933 August 21 at 05:49:10.9 UTC
Last Penumbral Internal Contact1933 August 21 at 06:38:38.7 UTC
Last Umbral Internal Contact1933 August 21 at 07:41:17.5 UTC
Last Central Line1933 August 21 at 07:42:25.2 UTC
Last Umbral External Contact1933 August 21 at 07:43:32.9 UTC
Last Penumbral External Contact1933 August 21 at 08:45:47.4 UTC

ParameterValue
Eclipse Magnitude0.98011
Eclipse Obscuration0.96062
Gamma0.08688
Sun Right Ascension09h59m34.9s
Sun Declination+12°16'29.3"
Sun Semi-Diameter15'48.7"
Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax08.7"
Moon Right Ascension09h59m43.6s
Moon Declination+12°20'51.3"
Moon Semi-Diameter15'15.5"
Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax0°55'59.9"
ΔT23.9 s

Eclipse season

This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months later; thus two full eclipse seasons always occur each year. Either two or three eclipses happen each eclipse season. In the sequence below, each eclipse is separated by a fortnight. The first and last eclipse in this sequence is separated by one synodic month.
August 5
Ascending node 		August 21
Descending node 		September 4
Ascending node
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 108		Annular solar eclipse
Solar Saros 134		Penumbral lunar eclipse
Lunar Saros 146

Related eclipses

Eclipses in 1933

Metonic

Tzolkinex

Half-Saros

Tritos

Solar Saros 134

Inex

Triad