Elementary astronomy; a beginner's text-book (1899)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 251
nly so small a part of theEarths surface, and while there are many more solareclipses than lunar for the whole Earth taken together,fewer are visible at any one station. Occultation of Stars by the Moon.—Since all the bodies of the solarsystem are nearer than the fixed stars, it is evident that… … ECLIPSES OF THE SUN AND MOON. 231 passes over some star visible to the naked eye every few days.Such phenomena are termed occultations of stars by the Moon. The Nautical Almanac contains predictions of all occultations,These predictions are obtained by calculating the Moons path onthe celestial…
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