occultation

occultation englannista suomeksi

1. okkultaatio, tähdenpeitto

0. Substantiivi

1. okkultaatio, of a star tähdenpeitto

occultation englanniksi

1. An astronomical event that occurs when one object is hidden by another celestial object that passes between it and the observer when the nearer object appears larger and completely hides the more distant object.

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2. (quote-journal)|title=An Accompt of such of the More Notable Celestial Phænomena of the Year 1670, as will be Conspicuous in the English Horizon; Written by the Learned and Industrious Mr. John Flamstead Novemb. 4 1669. and by Him Addressed and Recommended for Encouragement, to the Right Honorable, the Lord (w), as President of the Royal Society|journal=Transactions of the Royal Society|Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World|location=London|publisher=Printed for T. N. for Martyn (publisher)|John Martyn at the Bell, a little without Bar, London|Temple-Bar, printer to the (w)|date=17 January 1670|volume=IV|issue=55|pages=1101–1102|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=7sFeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP221|oclc=644029022|passage=The diſtance of any place within this kingdom from it, will not much vary the manner of their Appearance in any of the ''Phænomena'', except the Eclipſe of the Sun: for, in the Occultations, the Stars will appeare to paſs nearly under the ſame Angles and Spots of the Moon; (..)

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5. (quote-book) I was thrilled at the prospect of seeing the waning crescent Moon swing over Venus in the predawn sky on Wednesday morning, April 22, 2009. While the occultation was visible from much of North America, it was only in Arizona and parts of other surrounding states, where Wendee and I live, that the ingress would take place in a completely dark sky. It would be a highlight of the International Year of Astronomy, which reached its peak during 2009.

6. The state of being (l).

7. (quote-journal). 12mo. pp. 150. London, 1824.|magazine=Review|The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Printed by the heirs of David Willison, for & Robinson|Archibald Constable and Company, Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, London|month=January|year=1825|volume=XLI|issue=LXXXII|oclc=925538131|passage=If Mr. Campbell (poet)|Thomas Campbell's poetry was of a kind that could be forgotten, his long fits of silence would put him fairly in the way of that misfortune. (..) The re-appearance of such an author, after those long periods of occultation, is naturally hailed as a novelty—and he receives the double welcome of a celebrated stranger and a remembered friend.

8. The disappearance of the Twelfth Imam, or Mahdi, who is believed alive and present in this world, but hidden until his reappearance at the end of time.

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