Today, 9 Jan 2014 at 0215UTC, with Venus shining at only 0.5% illumination, I wanted to see if there is any traces of the horn-shape crescent. I pushed the processing as much as possible, brightening the dark areas, without getting any artificial artifact.
The initial results seems to show that the crescent shape does extended well beyond 180 degrees around the limb.
The inverted image also shows the same.
It would be interesting to see if tomorrow will yield clearer results.
Telescope: Skywatcher 120mm ED
Camera: IMG132E.
200 best frame stacked.
PixInsight
This is excellent the horns coming out now. Saw your image on Spaceweather too. Must be getting dangerous now so close to the Sun, I would not dare do this!
