A total solar eclipse occurred at the Moon's ascending node of orbit between Tuesday, February 13 and Wednesday, February 14, 1934,[1] with a magnitude of 1.0321. 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. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Occurring only 1.6 days after perigee (on February 12, 1934, at 11:20 UTC), the Moon's apparent diameter was smaller.[2]
Totality was visible from the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia), North Borneo (now belonging to Malaysia), and the South Seas Mandate of Japan (the part now belonging to FS Micronesia). A partial eclipse was visible for parts of East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, northern Oceania, Hawaii, and western North America.
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.[3]
| First Penumbral External Contact | 1934 February 13 at 22:05:29.4 UTC | |
| First Umbral External Contact | 1934 February 13 at 23:06:39.1 UTC | |
| First Central Line | 1934 February 13 at 23:07:11.7 UTC | |
| First Umbral Internal Contact | 1934 February 13 at 23:07:44.4 UTC | |
| Greatest Duration | 1934 February 14 at 00:33:36.8 UTC | |
| Greatest Eclipse | 1934 February 14 at 00:38:41.4 UTC | |
| Ecliptic Conjunction | 1934 February 14 at 00:43:45.3 UTC | |
| Equatorial Conjunction | 1934 February 14 at 01:02:37.9 UTC | |
| Last Umbral Internal Contact | 1934 February 14 at 02:09:25.3 UTC | |
| Last Central Line | 1934 February 14 at 02:09:56.3 UTC | |
| Last Umbral External Contact | 1934 February 14 at 02:10:27.3 UTC | |
| Last Penumbral External Contact | 1934 February 14 at 03:11:47.3 UTC |
| Eclipse Magnitude | 1.03214 | |
| Eclipse Obscuration | 1.06531 | |
| Gamma | 0.48681 | |
| Sun Right Ascension | 21h47m44.9s | |
| Sun Declination | -13°18'50.8" | |
| Sun Semi-Diameter | 16'11.6" | |
| Sun Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 08.9" | |
| Moon Right Ascension | 21h46m53.7s | |
| Moon Declination | -12°52'16.3" | |
| Moon Semi-Diameter | 16'28.2" | |
| Moon Equatorial Horizontal Parallax | 1°00'26.8" | |
| ΔT | 23.9 s |
See also: Eclipse cycle. This eclipse is part of an eclipse season, a period, roughly every six months, when eclipses occur. Only two (or occasionally three) eclipse seasons occur each year, and each season lasts about 35 days and repeats just short of six months (173 days) 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.
| February 14 Ascending node (new moon) | ||
| Partial lunar eclipse Lunar Saros 113 | Total solar eclipse Solar Saros 139 |