Transit of Venus Blogging, Take 2

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Hey, guess what? I got a picture of the transit of Venus after all. Isn’t that exciting? The unretouched photo below was the very last one I took before the middle of the sun dipped below the horizon, and that tiny little smudge is Venus. I figured everyone would want to know.