Re: [Utah-astronomy] "It looks like a banana!"

A couple of us tried seeing the crescent without optical aid from SPOC on Friday night, without success. I used a ND "moon" filter to reduce the glare but it was just beyond my limit with my glasses on. Venus is passing quite a ways north of the ecliptic on this conjuction, so it's not as close to earth as it can be during superior conjunction. When it transits in a few years, then it will be as apparently large as possible. It will almost certainly be a clearly-discerned round dot on the sun when viewed with proper filtration.