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Occulted meaning
simple past and past participle of occult
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An eclipse obscuration refers to the fraction of the Sun’s surface area occulted or covered by the Moon.
On the morning of the 19th, the day before summer starts, Venus will be occulted by the moon.
Also, from time to time Saturn is occulted by the Moon (that is, the Moon covers up Saturn in the sky).
On 31 July 2009, Antares was occulted by the Moon.
Other planets have not occulted Antares in the last millennium nor will they do so in the next millennium, as they pass as a result of their actual node position and inclination always northward of Antares.
There is a so-called continuous viewing zone (CVZ), at roughly 90° to the plane of Hubble's orbit, in which targets are not occulted for long periods.
When the umbra does not reach the surface of the Earth, the Sun is only partially occulted, resulting in an annular eclipse.