Solar eclipse of March 20, 2034
# Solar eclipse of March 20, 2034

A total solar eclipse will occur on Monday, March 20, 2034. 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.

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## Related eclipses

### Solar eclipses of 2033–2036

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.

Solar eclipse series sets from 2033–2036 :

| Descending node | Descending node | Ascending node | Ascending node |
| - | - | - | - |
| 120 | March 30, 2033 Total | 125 | September 23, 2033 Partial |
| 130 | March 20, 2034 Total | 135 | September 12, 2034 Annular |
| 140 | March 9, 2035 Annular | 145 | September 2, 2035 Total |
| 150 | February 27, 2036 Partial | 155 | August 21, 2036 Partial |
| A partial solar eclipse on July 23, 2036 occurs in the next lunar year eclipse set. |||||

### Saros 130

This eclipse is a part of Saros cycle 130, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 73 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on August 20, 1096. It contains total eclipses from April 5, 1475 through July 18, 2232. There are no annular eclipses in the series. The series ends at member 73 as a partial eclipse on October 25, 2394. The longest duration of totality was 6 minutes, 41 seconds on July 11, 1619. All eclipses in this series occurs at the Moon’s descending node.

Series members 43–56 between 1853 and 2300 :

| 43 | 44 | 45 |
| - | - | - |
| November 30, 1853 | December 12, 1871 | December 22, 1889 |
| 46 | 47 | 48 |
| January 3, 1908 | January 14, 1926 | January 25, 1944 |
| 49 | 50 | 51 |
| February 5, 1962 | February 16, 1980 | February 26, 1998 |
| 52 | 53 | 54 |
| March 9, 2016 | March 20, 2034 | March 30, 2052 |
| 55 | 56 | 57 |
| April 11, 2070 | April 21, 2088 | May 3, 2106 |
| 58 | 59 | 60 |
| May 14, 2124 | May 25, 2142 | June 4, 2160 |
| 61 | 62 | 63 |
| June 16, 2178 | June 26, 2196 | July 8, 2214 |
| 64 | 65 | 66 |
| July 18, 2232 | July 30, 2250 | August 9, 2268 |
| 67 |
| August 20, 2286 |

### Tritos series

This eclipse is a part of a tritos cycle, repeating at alternating nodes every 135 synodic months (≈ 3986.63 days, or 11 years minus 1 month). Their appearance and longitude are irregular due to a lack of synchronization with the anomalistic month (period of perigee), but groupings of 3 tritos cycles (≈ 33 years minus 3 months) come close (≈ 434.044 anomalistic months), so eclipses are similar in these groupings.

Series members between 1901 and 2100 :

| March 29, 1903 (Saros 118) | February 25, 1914 (Saros 119) | January 24, 1925 (Saros 120) |
| - | - | - |
| December 25, 1935 (Saros 121) | November 23, 1946 (Saros 122) | October 23, 1957 (Saros 123) |
| September 22, 1968 (Saros 124) | August 22, 1979 (Saros 125) | July 22, 1990 (Saros 126) |
| June 21, 2001 (Saros 127) | May 20, 2012 (Saros 128) | April 20, 2023 (Saros 129) |
| March 20, 2034 (Saros 130) | February 16, 2045 (Saros 131) | January 16, 2056 (Saros 132) |
| December 17, 2066 (Saros 133) | November 15, 2077 (Saros 134) | October 14, 2088 (Saros 135) |
| September 14, 2099 (Saros 136) | |

### Metonic series

The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition, the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's descending node.

21 eclipse events between June 1, 2011 and June 1, 2087 :

| May 31 – June 1 | March 19–20 | January 5–6 | October 24–25 | August 12–13 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 118 | 120 | 122 | 124 | 126 |
| June 1, 2011 | March 20, 2015 | January 6, 2019 | October 25, 2022 | August 12, 2026 |
| 128 | 130 | 132 | 134 | 136 |
| June 1, 2030 | March 20, 2034 | January 5, 2038 | October 25, 2041 | August 12, 2045 |
| 138 | 140 | 142 | 144 | 146 |
| May 31, 2049 | March 20, 2053 | January 5, 2057 | October 24, 2060 | August 12, 2064 |
| 148 | 150 | 152 | 154 | 156 |
| May 31, 2068 | March 19, 2072 | January 6, 2076 | October 24, 2079 | August 13, 2083 |
| 158 | 160 | 162 | 164 | 166 |
| June 1, 2087 | | | October 24, 2098 | |
