Venus, in the daytime sky, 4 days after the 2012 transit. This was June 9, 2012, with Venus 6° west of the Sun. This is a picture-in-picture composite of two images: the larger full-frame image was taken with the Canon 60Da camera at the prime focus of a 130mm f/6 apo refractor, with a 2X Barlow for an effective focal length of about 1200mm. The inset is an image taken with the same telescope and Barlow but with the camera on Movie Crop mode. The inset is a single frame of a 640×480 movie, with Venus filling much more of the frame but at the same per-pixel image scale as the large wide-field frame.
The Amazing Sky 