Outer-planet occultations

"With giant Saturn hanging in the blackness and sheltering Cassini from the sun's blinding glare, the spacecraft viewed Saturn's rings as never before, revealing previously unknown faint rings and even glimpsing its home world... Color in the view was created by digitally compositing ultraviolet, infrared and clear filter images and was then adjusted to resemble natural color."

Obviously, the second image was altered to be more dynamic.

Meanwhile, beyond the lunar limb...



"Dennis Simmons of Brisbane, Australia, assembled this image from pictures he took moments before a lunar occultation of Uranus on Sept. 8th. Using his 9-inch telescope, he also spotted the planet's Shakespearean moons, Titania and Oberon."