Occultation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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An occultation is an event that occurs when one object is hidden by another object that passes between it and the observer. The word is used in astronomy (see below) and can also be used in a genera...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occultation
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The International Occultation Timing Association ... To promote scientific research and discovery using occultation related methods ... To improve lunar profile data through timing of grazing and total occultations...
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www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/iotandx.htm
www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/iotandx.htm
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International Occultation Timing Association. ... WELCOME TO LUNAR-OCCULTATIONS.COM A Site for the Avid Lunar Observer ...
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www.lunar-occultations.com/
www.lunar-occultations.com/
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NASA Science News: This weekend the moon will occult the bright 1st magnitude star Regulus. ... Amateur astronomers around North America captured beautiful images of a lunar occultation on May 21, 1999 ... International Occultation Timing Association -- learn more about lunar occultations...
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science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast03jun99_1.htm
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Morrison, L.V. and Sadler, F.M., "An Analysis of Lunar Occultations 1960-66" Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 144 (1969) p. 129-141 ... Whiteman, M. "A Program for Lunar Occultation Predictions" Selenology 8,1 (1989) p. 19-21.
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lunar-occultations.com/iota/iotaread.htm
lunar-occultations.com/iota/iotaread.htm
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Finally, the Lunar Occultation Workbench (LOW) version 4.1 is now available. Among other things, LOW can now be used to read and write IOTA2008 format files. LOW 4.2 will come later this or early next year and it will be able to handle the fantabulous Kaguya data.
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Occultations occur when a moving object, such as a planet or the moon, blocks the light coming from a more distant object, such as a star. Check out this movie of a lunar occultation.
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tdc-www.harvard.edu/occultations/
tdc-www.harvard.edu/occultations/
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Lunar occultation. Lunar occultation. Information about Lunar occultation in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. ... Furthermore, the lunar occultation technique isn't sensitive enough to pick up binary systems in which one star is significantly dimmer than the other.
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encyclopedia.farlex.com/Lunar+occultation
encyclopedia.farlex.com/Lunar+occultation
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The term "Fresnel diffraction" is often used to describe situations like the lunar occultation: a distant source of light sends waves past an obstruction of some kind and onto a distant screen. Now, there are several natural lengths in this problem:
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spiff.rit.edu/richmond/occult/bessel/bessel.html
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