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When a star is occulted by a "sharp edge" such as the limb of the Moon or by an asteroid, then diffraction effects are seen.
The star doesn't suddenly disappear (or appear); there are a series of maxima and minima associated with the Fresnel diffraction pattern formed by the edge. This in turn is the convolution of the diffraction pattern formed by ...
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