Solar eclipse of August 21, 1933
20th-century annular solar eclipse / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 (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.
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 | 16.9°N 95.9°E / 16.9; 95.9 |
Max. width of band | 71 km (44 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 5:49:11 |
References | |
Saros | 134 (39 of 71) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9359 |