Venus among iridescent clouds

Taking advantage of today's deeply blue sky, I searched for and observed Venus with the unaided eye. Although with some difficulty, hiding the Sun from the nearby building, I succeeded. I followed it for a few hours with my Nikon. From time to time, a few clouds would pass close by or obscure it. The wind dispersed them and the sunlight coloured some of them.

As luck would have it, some of the iridescent clouds passed very close to Venus, so that I was able to capture its very thin crescent at 42x immersed in their light shades.

Nikon coolpix p510 ISO200 1/2000s

Nikon coolpix p510

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