The Moon passed in front of Saturn as seen from Australia.
An occultation occurs when an object such as the Moon passes in front of another object, such as a planet.
I took this image of the occultation of Saturn by the Full Moon on the evening of 14th May 2014, with my Meade LX-90 Schmidt-Cassegraine telescope and my Canon 60D DLSR camera:
Canon 60D, 1/60th sec, ISO 100, f10 telescope. (c) R. P.
This image was taken a few minutes after Saturn reappeared from behind the Moon. Saturn looks tiny in comparison but its diameter is actually 35 times bigger than the Moon's.
The Moon (mag -12.0) was considerably brighter than Saturn (mag +0.1) and if my arithmetic is correct that is a total brightness differential of about 65000. So I took an image that was over-exposed for the Moon and under-exposed for Saturn.
In Photoshop I then enhanced the Moon's contrast and then separately enhanced Saturns brightness. It's a technique that is not without it's problems but it seems to have worked out alright on this occasion.
I also posted this image on my Facebook page and it was subsequently copied - by an aquaintance of one of my sons - to a Reddit forum, of which I am not a member, so could not comment. It was annoying to see my photograph published without credit but at least it provoked a long discussion about astronomy. In this case it was harmless, it was not for commercial use or even self-benefit in any way, so I will not get too upset - but this is one reason why I rarely post images to Facebook. Too many people think they can grab your image and post it elsewhere without consent.
However, it was astonishing to see some Reddit "experts" bizarrely pontificating online that my image was most definitely a fake! Why would I (an amateur astronomer) go to the trouble of taking two separate images of the Moon and Saturn to merge into one fake image - as I was accused of doing - when I had a golden opportunity on 14th May 2014 to take them both together on the one single image?
Anyway, here is another image (taken a few minutes before Saturn disappeared) with an exposure setting more suitable for Saturn, with the Moon grossly over-exposed:
Canon 60D, 1/8th sec, ISO 100, f10 telescope. (c) R. P.
I kinda like that too.