here's another from tonight - it has Venus as well as p1 in it - i just enhanced it ridiculously to highlight their individual brightness in the hope of a comparson of sorts re current magnitude - that mothers head looked like it was gonna explode - a furious magnesium bomb!!! like it had gigantism of the nucleus
details: single shot 1/250 sec f 3.5 iso 200
EDIT: Venus being the bright object in the the mid-top right, and mcnaught is circled. nothing was intefering with brightness of Venus at the time.