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Definition of Occultations
1. occultation [n] - See also: occultation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Occultations
Literary usage of Occultations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Astronomy and Astro-physics by European Southern Observatory, Goodsell Observatory (1886)
"The more general observation of occultations of stars by the moon by observers
in all parts of the earth is, it seems to me, very much to be desired ..."
2. American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge edited by Jared Sparks, Johann Schobert, Francis Bowen, George Partridge Sanger (1837)
"128° 18' E. Occultations IN 1837. The following table contains a list of those
conjunctions of the Moon, with planets and with stars of not less than the ..."
3. The U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere, During by James Melville Gilliss (1856)
"There was no leisure to compute anticipated occultations for ourselves, and the
Nautical Almanac tables were not reliable. Moreover, neither the zone work ..."
4. An Introduction to Practical Astronomy: With a Collection of Astronomical Tables by Elias Loomis (1892)
"The formulas required for the computation of occultations of stars by the moon are
... Hence, for occultations, the quantities / and i, as well as the ..."
5. A Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy: Embracing the General by William Chauvenet (1863)
"The occultations of Jupiter's satellites by the body of the planet.—The approximate
Greenwich times of the disappearance behind the disc, ..."
6. A Treatise on Practical Astronomy: As Applied to Geodesy and Navigation by Charles Leander Doolittle (1885)
"Determination of Longitude by Occultations of Stars. 242. The observation of
occultations of stars by the moon and of eclipses of the sun furnishes, ..."
7. American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge edited by Jared Sparks, Johann Schobert, Francis Bowen, George Partridge Sanger (1833)
"[Those marked with an asterisk (*) will also be Occultations at Charleston, and
those with an obelisk (|) in some part of Europe.] *»* The semi-diameter of ..."
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