Sentence examples for occulting lights from inspiring English sources

In another category, "occulting" lights are normally on and momentarily extinguished, with short eclipses interrupting longer periods of light.

There is a continuous red light as well as an occulting red light which is on for 5.8 seconds and off for 4.2 seconds.

A lens focuses an image of the sun onto a masking or occulting disk that prevents the light from proceeding farther into the telescope.

The timing of eclipses provides the angular size of any occulting object, and so analyzing the light curves of eclipsing binaries can be a useful means of determining the dimensions of either dwarf or giant stars.

The characteristic of the light changed from fixed to occulting.

The lighthouse has a white light which occults every ten seconds.

And the way in which the light of the occulted star faded and reappeared suggests that Quaoar may have an extremely tenuous methane atmosphere, with a surface pressure 10 million times smaller than Earth's.

Other fainter Hyades stars, all near 153 light years distant, are also occulted before Aldebaran itself slips behind the Moon's upper limb later in the night.

A historian of countercultures and occulted pasts?

It was an obscure pursuit — almost occult.

Blu-ray & DVD, ITV Studios Dennis Wheatley occult adventure from Hammer.