The Collaborative International Dictionary
Occulting \Oc*cult"ing\, n. Same as Occultation.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of occult English)
Usage examples of "occulting".
Above us, the Beanstalk rose up and up, occulting the backdrop of stars.
A black dust cloud wandering through the Solar System, a bad prank by some grad students on one of the space habitats, flinging a king-size occulting disk in front of Earth, a sudden weird flaw in the dome’s glass that filtered out Earth-colored light.
She's not sure what causes the beam downtime (Pierre has a theory about Oort cloud objects occulting the laser, but she figures it's more likely to be power cuts back at the Ring), but the consequences of losing power while maneuvering deep in a quasi-stellar gravity well are much more serious than a transient loss of thrust during free interstellar flight.
The French dragons were directly occulting the summer sun, and the twilight resulting was like that in a total solar eclipse.