An occultation is really the eclipse of a star by the moon.
Frequent observations of stars passing behind the moon in occultation have satisfied astronomers on this point.
Spectroscopic observation by Huggins of the occultation of Eta Piscium.
He had written a treatise on the occultation of Mars, he had described the belts of Saturn, he had even measured his waist.
Consider my age, my whiskers, my position at the Dorpat University, my map of the moon in four sheets, my paper on the occultation of Mars.
A little practice soon enables the observer to accustom himself to these effects, and an old hand finds no more difficulty in observing an occultation of any kind than in taking a transit.
One of the finest and loftiest flights of Longfellow's imagination is to be found in his poem on the occultation of Orion.
Orion, theoccultation of, its position in the heavens, 14; its place in the old mythology, 15.
By occultation is meant, as is well known, the eclipse of the body through passing into the shadow of its parent planet.
One of the simplest and most direct means of testing the time of a place, as compared with Greenwich time, is furnished by observation of the occultation of one of the moons of Jupiter.
I observed to-night an occultation of a Geminorum; which, although at the bright limb of the moon, appears to give a very good result, that has been adopted for the longitude.
The night was mild, with a very clear sky; and I obtained a very excellent observation of an occultation of Tau.
I was, in particular, struck with the effect of the occultation of Principle on motives.
It was melancholy to remark how the lustre of the ordinary virtues grew dim, as the period of occultation continued, and the eye gradually got to be accustomed to the atmosphere cast by the shadow of pecuniary interest.
Legislation, during the occultation of the great moral postulate Principle by the passage of Pecuniary Interest, is, at the best, but a melancholy affair.
Mr. Longfellow has a poem on the "Occultation of Orion.
See also the same poet's Occultation of Orion: "The Samian's great AEolian lyre.
See Longfellow's Verses to a Child, andOccultation of Orion, for Pythagoras as inventor of the lyre.
None of the preceding Conjunctions will prove to be an Eclipse or Occultation visible at Greenwich.
It happened this night that she passed over the star Fomalhaut--an occultationwhich I watched with great interest through an excellent field-glass, but which lasted only for about half a minute.
What was still more novel was the occultationfor some little time of a star, apparently of the tenth magnitude, not by the planet but by the satellite, almost immediately after it passed off the disc of the former.
For every conformation and constitution is effected by means of veiling, because occultation here is the same as manifestation, the excess of light being veiled, so that, diminished in intensity and degree, it may be received by those below.
Mysterii or books of occultation sum up the Sephiroth, 758-u.
There is a record of an occultationin Gemini noted about the middle of the fourth century B.
An occultation of it by the moon, which not infrequently occurs, is a striking phenomenon.
They appear like mere dots of light, and their transit of or occultation with the planet (that is, their disappearance before or behind its disk) can be watched, and is a never failing source of pleasure.
A record of a lunar occultation of β Scorpii in 295 B.
Such an occultation is instantaneous, and is particularly impressive when either a disappearance or a reappearance occurs at the defective limb; that is to say, at the limb which is not illuminated by the Sun, and is therefore invisible.
Of such indications, the most delicate, perhaps, are those afforded by the occultation of a planet by the moon.
And far more, who would have been liberal enough to disregard that objection, naturally lost sight of me when under occultation to them in a journal which they never saw.
One becomes accustomed to it, and yet while we know that the occultation of the Sun by the Moon is a natural phenomenon, we can not escape a certain sense of uneasiness.
