Crescent Venus, 9 hours before inferior conjunction

Venus as a 0.6% illuminated crescent, just 9 hours before inferior conjunction

Celestron C5 SCT telescope
ZWO ASI 294MM Pro camera
SkyWatcher EQ6R-Pro equatorial mount

Used AstroSurface to choose the best 368 of 18,444 frames (2%) of a SER video, and align and stack them. Wavelet sharpening and denoising in Lucien Astrosurface.
I artificially colorized (very gently) the background to represent the deep blue foreground sky.