Up at 5:30 to shoot...solid cloud bank in the East.
Was unable to use my solar-filter, but the clouds were so
thick, in the end, I did not need one!
Taken through 85mm refractor, prime focus.
Venus (12106 km diameter) is just a bit smaller than Earth (12742 km).
So we see approx what the Earth looks like compared to the Sun...amazing..
8 years ago, was also cloudy!: http://www.pbase.com/adamstw/image/29914959

At noon, when clouds had passed:
(used solar filter here)
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