Here's the result of a tricky mid-day imaging run on Venus on the 9th August, just four days before conjunction with the Sun. Venus is 57.2" wide, 1.4% lit, and just 9.8° from the Sun. I was able to use the house as a sunshade for the telescope and safely image Venus almost directly above the Sun in my Australian sky. Even with the precautions, some sunlight was reaching in towards the telescope corrector plate - care was needed! The horns of the crescent extended to approximately 205°.
Celestron C14 at f/22, ZWO ASI462MC, ZWO ADC. The image is an IR-RGB image: luminance data comes from a 7x30s 642nm IR image set, and colour data from 7x30s shooting with a UV/IR cut filter.
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