astronomy, planetary transits and occultations occur when a planet passes in front of another object, as seen by an observer. The occulted object may...

size Lunar occultation of Venus Occultations, transits, and eclipses Planetary transits and occultations Radio occultation Solar eclipse Syzygy (astronomy)...

one. In the combined case where the smaller body regularly transits the larger, an occultation is also termed a secondary eclipse. An eclipse occurs when...

planet eclipses/transits its host star it will block a portion of the light from the star. If the planet transits in-between the star and the observer the...

mutual planetary eclipses, including occultations and transits. Although mutual occultations of planets had been recorded in 581, 1170, 1590, and 1737,...

"109P/Swift-Tuttle Orbit". Minor Planet Center. "Occultation – Mutual planetary transits and occultations – Encyclopedia II". Archived from the original...

a transit, Venus is visible as a small black circle moving across the face of the Sun. Transits of Venus reoccur periodically. A pair of transits takes...

occur on November 13, 2032. A typical transit lasts several hours. Mercury transits are much more frequent than transits of Venus, with about 13 or 14 per...

Telescope has been used to detect transits of extrasolar planets, as well as occultations of the planets by their host star and phase curves. The Gaia mission...

the transits of Venus and Mercury by 13th-century Maragha astronomer Qotb al-Din Shirazi, though this cannot be true as there were no Venus transits in...

CoRoT (French: Convection, Rotation et Transits planétaires; English: Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits) was a space telescope mission which operated...

a stellar occultation of the planetary body Eris, revealing that it may be smaller than Pluto, and it helped observe a stellar occultation by Makemake...

on this string of three occultations, scientists were able to trace out the object's shape. Results of the 2017 occultation campaign Pre-flyby conceptual...

2007). "Planetary Transits Across the Sun". NASA. Archived from the original on March 11, 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-11. "When will the next transits of Mercury...

The occult is a category of supernatural beliefs and practices, encompassing such phenomena as those involving mysticism, spirituality, and magic in terms...

the possibility of planetary transits across the face of the Sun in his work Planetary Hypotheses. He suggested that no transits had been observed either...

astrophotography, which allows pre-processing and processing of images from any type of camera (CCD, planetary camera, webcam etc.). The images must be converted...

systems. Ring systems around minor planets have also been discovered via occultations. Some studies even theorize that the Earth may have had a ring system...

solar eclipse. Occultations in which the larger body is neither the Sun nor the Moon are very rare. More frequent, however, is an occultation of a planet...

atmospheres and developing low-cost space observatories to observe planetary transits. Seager was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and is Jewish. Her...

(March 2012). "Planetary Construction Zones in Occultation: Discovery of an Extrasolar Ring System Transiting a Young Sun-like Star and Future Prospects...

ruìhuá.) Since 1988 there have been 8 reported stellar occultations by Juewa. From the occultation on 31 August 2013 the best fit ellipse measures 148.3±4...

the size and distance of the occulter. TAOS is sensitive to occultations by Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) larger than about 500 m in diameter and to Sedna-like...

detected via stellar occultations in 2021 and 2023.: 9  As of 2025[update], the satellite of Huya has been detected via stellar occultation three times, all...

for which an occultation was observed. It passed in front of a dim star (SAO 112328) on 19 February 1958. Since then, several occultations by Juno have...

collisions with each other. Pallas, Vesta and Ceres appear to be the only intact bodies from this early stage of planetary formation to survive within the orbit...

In tightly packed planetary systems, the gravitational pull of the planets among themselves causes one planet to accelerate and another planet to decelerate...

the transits of the various planets, which are expected to range from minutes to tens of minutes, should help pin down the planetary masses and uncover...

by the Research and Education Collaborative Occultation Network (RECON), a citizen science project dedicated to observing occultations by trans-Neptunian...

TRAPPIST-1 planetary system have been represented as music, such as Tim Pyle's Trappist Transits, in Isolation's single Trappist-1 (A Space Anthem) and Leah...