Occultation
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(k´´lt´shn), in astronomy, eclipse of one celestial body by another, e.g., when the moon lies between a star and the earth.
Occultation
In this July, 1997 still frame captured from video, the bright star Aldebaran has just reappeared on the dark limb of the waning crescent moon in this predawn occultation.
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Definition: occultation: The blockage of light by the intervention of another object; a planet can occult (block) the light from a distant star.
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OCCULTATION - When a large celestial body hides a small one from view (as when the moon moves in front of a star or Jupiter over one of its moons), the event is usually termed occultation rather than eclipse.
occultation
the passage of one object in front of a smaller one, temporarily obscuring all or part of the background object from view
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Occultation
(a) Eclipse of a star by another celestial body.
(b) The cutoff of the light from a celestial body caused by its passage behind another object (see Eclipse ). (Strictly speaking, a Solar "eclipse" is a Solar occultation.) ...
Occultation The disappearance of one celestial body behind another.
Occultation An alignment of two bodies with the observer such that the nearer body prevents the light from the further body from reaching the observer. The nearer body is said to occult the further body.
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The passage of an object in front of another, blocking the light from the background object. For example, the Moon can occult a star or planet, or an asteroid can occult a star.
Occultation
The passage of a larger body in front of a smaller body.
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stellar occultation The dimming of starlight produced when a solar system object such as a planet, moon, or ring, passes directly in front of a star.
Stellar Occultation - The obstruction of the light from a star when a solar system body passes between the star and the observer ...
Occultation of the star Antares
On January 7, the Moon will occult -- or pass in front of Antares, the bright, ruddy star depicting the beating heart of Scorpius the Scorpion. This is the first occultation of Antares since April 4, 1991.
OCCULTATION
Occultation is when a smaller astronomical body passes behind a larger astronomical body (wholly obscuring its view). One example of occultation is when a planet passes behind the Sun (from our perspective) and it is hidden from our view.
occultation: when the Moon or a planet passes directly in front of a more distant planet or star. A grazing occultation occurs if the background body is never completely hidden from the observer.
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occultation - (n.)
The hiding of one astronomical body by another, such as the occultation of a star by the moon.
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Occultation
An event that occurs when one celestial body conceals or obscures another. For example, a solar eclipse is an occultation of the Sun by the Moon.
An occultation of the by the . 240 solar eclipses occur every century. Solar eclipses take place during daylight hours and can occur only at . Solar eclipses may be or . Total solar eclipses can last up to 7.
(a) Occultation of one celestial body by another which passes between it and the observer.
The occultation technique is limited to the rare passages of asteroids in front of stars, and, because the technique measures only one cross section, it is best applied to fairly spherical asteroids.
"An occultation occurs when an object passes in front of another object so as obstruct the observer's view of the latter. Bodies in the Solar System occult stars and occasionally occult one another (e.g.
Star Occultation Provides Defining Glimpse of Charon Scientific American - January 5, 2006
The solar system beyond Neptune is a dark and mysterious place. It is also crowded.
Radio occultation occurs when Earth, as viewed by the spacecraft, is seen through - occulted by - the Venus atmosphere.
The star-occultation experiment showed that few clear gaps exist in the rings. The structure in the B-ring, instead, appears to be variations in density waves or other, stationary, forms of waves.
The only occultation of Mars by Venus observed was that of October 3, 1590, seen by M. Möstlin at Heidelberg.
In 1609, Mars was viewed by Galileo, who was first to see it via telescope.
occultation (NASA Thesaurus / NASA SP-7, 1965) The disappearance of a body behind another body of larger apparent size.
When the moon passes between the observer and a star, the star is said to be occulted.
a lunar eclipse, the moon passing through the shadow cast by the earth; or by the passage of a satellite into the shadow cast by its planet; but when the satellite actually passes directly behind its planet, it may properly be termed an occultation.
Quasars (quasi-stellar radio sources) were first thought to be radio-loud stars, when interferometry or lunar-occultation positions allowed precise identification (as for 3C 273, Hazard, Mackey and Shimmins 1963 Nature 197, 1037).
Observations made during an occultation such as the one that occurred in 1988 cannot provide direct information about atmospheric composition. They rather only enable determination of the ratio of mean molecular weight to temperature.
The brightness, from another occultation, suggests that this companion is a class G3 dwarf very much like the Sun that should orbit at a distance of 3 Astronomical Units, ...
While recording the occultation of a star behind the planet, the American astronomer James L. Elliot (1943- ) discovered the presence of five rings encircling the equator of Uranus.
14 (occultation of faint star by Pluto) Seidelmann, 1968: 0.14 Seidelmann, 1971: 0.11 Cruikshank, 1976: 0.002 Christy, 1978: 0.002 (Charon discovered) Another short-lived trans-Neptunian suspect was reported on April 22 1930 by R.M.
The Rings Uranus's rings have been observed with the starlight-blocking (or occultation) technique 13 more times since they were discovered in 1977. We now know that there are at least nine narrow rings encircling the planet.
The eclipse of an apparently small object by one which appears much larger is generally called an occultation. Thus the Moon occults many stars as it moves across the sky.
Neptune's rings were first detected in star occultation experiments from Earth in 1983, but they were very difficult to study before the data from Voyager 2.
The atmosphere surrounding Pluto has been known only since astronomers observed an occultation in 1985. They then did some measuring during an occultation in 1988 and again in 2002. They found that atmospheric pressure had doubled over 14 years.
Shimmins use lunar occultations to determine a precise position for the quasar 3C273 and deduce that it is a double source,
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16 at the equator (Kenneth Croswell, 2005; McAlister et al, 2005); Henson, et al, 1989; and angular diameter in two colors from a Lunar occultation from Richard R. Radick, 1982), and 140 times its visual luminosity (240 times with ultraviolet).
On July 28, the crescent moon will be 1.5° from Mars. Before the moon rises in New Zealand it will occult Mars. The occultation is visible from some southern parts of the Pacific Ocean including Rarotonga and Tahiti.
Like the PFS instrument, SPICAM will also measure the composition of the Martian atmosphere but in smaller volumes. It will also use the technique of stellar occultation to measure the vertical profiles of carbon dioxide, temperature, ozone, ...
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"Future observations will certainly help in computing an estimate [as to when this may occur]," says Demory. "We have new Spitzer observations scheduled next year that will observe the occultation of this super-Earth, ...
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(After the Voyager discovery, it was found that H. Reitsema, W. Hubbard, L. Lebofsky and D. Tholen had observed this satellite during a 1981 occultation event)
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is more useful for timing dynamic events, such as occultations or eclipses, or for meteor shower counts. Lastly, do not forget to record whether the time is Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) or Eastern Standard Time (EST).
In Bologna he also made his first recorded observation of the heavens, an occultation (overlapping, or eclipse) of the star Aldebaran by the Moon on March 9, 1497; the light of the former was shut off by the Moon.
If you are living in Los Angeles (-8 hours) and an occultation is scheduled at 03:00 on the 15th you would have to SUBTRACT 8 from 3 which would give you -5:00 or 7PM the previous day - the 14th.
At the end of 1905, however, about 37 had been certainly recognized, besides some outlying cases of indeterminate type, in which continuous occultations by two bright stars, revolving in virtual contact, are doubtfully supposed to be in progress. (A.
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