It seemed to me that Venus crossed more of the sun than is shown in this picture. Is parallax that much of a factor?
I was up at 4 AM to catch the NJ sunrise (~5:30), but low clouds where I was kept me from seeing the sun until about a half hour after it rose and the seeing wasn't very good. I wasn't able to see the Venus disk until I drove to another location but by that time it was projection only.
I'd been looking forward to this ever since I saw my first transit of Mercury back in the 60s.
ML/NJ