Meaning of accultation | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of occultation.

alt-of, alternative, countable, rare, uncountable

Examples

“The bright star Aldebaran is to be occulted by the moon on December 20th, at about 5 o'clock pm. Aldebaran is said to be eight hundred and eighty times the mass of the sun, with a diameter of over 8,000,000 miles; a distance so great that a meteor traveling at the rate of thirty miles per second, would require⟳ over three days to cross the disk of the star. Yet, notwithstanding the immense volume, the accultation will occur⟳ in a moment, so great is the distance of the star from us, and will continue⟳ for about one hour and eight minutes.”

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