Venus, about 8 hours before Inferior Conjunction.
Around 12.30 pm local noon time, there was a brief of good seeing, and probably the best one so far. Suits nicely as a parting shot. After that the sky seeing began to deteriorate really fast!
Even without stretching the original photo, we can easily see how the crescent has reach beyond 180 degrees around Venus.
0.4% illuminated and 5.1 deg from the Sun.
This is the closest Venus I've ever imaged (apart from 2012 transit, but even during that time I didn't follow its path few days before the transit). A personal record for me.
