occulation

When the object passed in front a of star, Hubble's instruments picked up the occulation.

Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen | Universe Today 2009

While Paige hesitated in the doorway to the blister, the little spots - that were Jupiter's largest moons visibly drew apart from each other a little, Until one of them went into occulation behind Anne's right shoulder.

Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957

Tonight there was a brilliant sunset of golden orange and green, which left the western sky clear and beautifully pure; but clouds in the east made me lose an occulation.

The Life of Kit Carson Ellis, Edward S 1889

Tonight there was a brilliant sunset of golden orange and green, which left the western sky clear and beautifully pure; but clouds in the east made me lose an occulation.

The Life of Kit Carson Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel U.S.A. Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

The mathematician who makes the calculations for a machine is not so well paid as the man who finishes it; the observatory calculator who calculates the time of occulation for a planet cannot earn so much as the one who grinds a reflector.

Side Lights James Runciman 1871

The object of a watch is to tell the number of seconds that elapse between the instant of occulation, eclipse, etc., and the instant, a minute or two later, when the sextant observation for time is made.

The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Francis Galton 1866

An occulation would require three pages in all; one of which would be for time.

The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Francis Galton 1866

The occulation of the fixed stars by the nucleus of a comet, or by its innermost vaporous envelopes, might throw some light on the physical character of these wonderful bodies; but we are unfortunately deficient in observations by which we may be assured* that the occulation was perfectly central; for, as it has already been observed, the parts of the envelope contiguous to the nucleus are alternately composed of layers of dense or very attenuated vapor.

COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

a careful series of lunars once a fortnight, on an average; compass variations as often; and an occulation now and then.

The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Francis Galton 1866

1977 - Rings of Uranus discovered during occulation of SAO

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