Venus is a thin crescent 11 days before its 2012 transit of the sun.
Details
Time 8:59 Pm PDT, May 25, 2012
Clear with no wind, fair seeing and temperature of 17 deg C.
14" SCT with Canon T3i camera operating in video crop mode.
Used 1061 frames taken at ISO 400 and1/1200 sec exposure.
Video converted to avi format, then graded, aligned and stacked in Registax 6. Additional processing in Images Plus to split colors and combine in Photoshop with multiplicative blend.