Solar eclipse of September 12, 2034
# Solar eclipse of September 12, 2034

An annular solar eclipse will occur on Tuesday, September 12, 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. 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.

The eclipse will commence over the southern Pacific Ocean, and enter South America. Countries under the path include northern Chile, southern Bolivia, northern Argentina, southern Paraguay, and southern Brazil. The eclipse will then enter the Atlantic Ocean, and terminate approximately 2,000 miles (3,200 km) southeast of South America.

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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. |||||

### Tzolkinex

* Preceded: Solar eclipse of August 2, 2027
* Followed: Solar eclipse of October 25, 2041

### Saros 135

It is a part of Saros cycle 135, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, containing 71 events. The series started with partial solar eclipse on July 5, 1331. It contains annular eclipses from October 21, 1511 through February 24, 2305, hybrid eclipses on March 8, 2323 and March 18, 2341 and total eclipses from March 29, 2359 through May 22, 2449. The series ends at member 71 as a partial eclipse on August 17, 2593. The longest duration of totality will be 2 minutes, 27 seconds on May 12, 2431.

Series members 27–43 occur between 1800 and 2100: :

| 27 | 28 | 29 |
| - | - | - |
| Apr 24, 1800 | May 5, 1818 | May 15, 1836 |
| 30 | 31 | 32 |
| May 26, 1854 | Jun 6, 1872 | Jun 17, 1890 |
| 33 | 34 | 35 |
| Jun 28, 1908 | Jul 9, 1926 | Jul 20, 1944 |
| 36 | 37 | 38 |
| Jul 31, 1962 | Aug 10, 1980 | Aug 22, 1998 |
| 39 | 40 | 41 |
| Sep 1, 2016 | Sep 12, 2034 | Sep 22, 2052 |
| 42 | 43 |
| Oct 4, 2070 | Oct 14, 2088 |

### 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 :

| September 21, 1903 (Saros 123) | August 21, 1914 (Saros 124) | July 20, 1925 (Saros 125) |
| - | - | - |
| June 19, 1936 (Saros 126) | May 20, 1947 (Saros 127) | April 19, 1958 (Saros 128) |
| March 18, 1969 (Saros 129) | February 16, 1980 (Saros 130) | January 15, 1991 (Saros 131) |
| December 14, 2001 (Saros 132) | November 13, 2012 (Saros 133) | October 14, 2023 (Saros 134) |
| September 12, 2034 (Saros 135) | August 12, 2045 (Saros 136) | July 12, 2056 (Saros 137) |
| June 11, 2067 (Saros 138) | May 11, 2078 (Saros 139) | April 10, 2089 (Saros 140) |
| March 10, 2100 (Saros 141) | |

### 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 ascending node.

21 eclipse events, progressing from south to north between July 1, 2000 and July 1, 2076 :

| July 1–2 | April 19–20 | February 5–7 | November 24–25 | September 12–13 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 117 | 119 | 121 | 123 | 125 |
| July 1, 2000 | April 19, 2004 | February 7, 2008 | November 25, 2011 | September 13, 2015 |
| 127 | 129 | 131 | 133 | 135 |
| July 2, 2019 | April 20, 2023 | February 6, 2027 | November 25, 2030 | September 12, 2034 |
| 137 | 139 | 141 | 143 | 145 |
| July 2, 2038 | April 20, 2042 | February 5, 2046 | November 25, 2049 | September 12, 2053 |
| 147 | 149 | 151 | 153 | 155 |
| July 1, 2057 | April 20, 2061 | February 5, 2065 | November 24, 2068 | September 12, 2072 |
| 157 | 159 | 161 | 163 | 165 |
| July 1, 2076 | | | | |
