"The most interesting views will be from a strip of land only a few hundred yards wide along the occultation's northern limit," where a "grazing occultation" will be visible, according to the ...

For the past few years, the moon has been crossing paths with one of the brightest stars in the sky, causing a stellar eclipse, or occultation. On Tuesday (July 10), before sunrise, the very last ...

As the moon moves along its path during a grazing occultation, the star or the planet can wink in and out of sight. If there are multiple people watching the grazing at the same time, it can ...

Another grazing occultation of Aldebaran was very successfully observed from Texas and Oklahoma on July 29th; results of that event, with links to some of the spectacular videos, are at ...

Lunar occultations are either classified as "total" or "grazing," the International Occultation Timing Association reports. The "total" occultation is simply a matter of a star vanishing behind ...

there are four possible types of visible occultation events: disappearance, reappearance, grazing, and total. A disappearance event is when an observer, located at the geographic start of the ...

Story continues The zone of visibility's southern limit runs through Cuba, and observers there might catch a grazing occultation on the eastern part of the island. A similar setup occurs in Europe, ...