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So an eclipse…of sorts

• evanb 5y ago
  In this case, transit is the right jargon. A transit is when the foreground object doesn’t completely hide the background object. An occultation is when the foreground object hides the background object. These two situations are collectively called occlusions. An occlusion is an eclipse if the the observer falls in a shadow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occultation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occultation