Venus is now rising a little more than an hour before the Sun, still retrograding, and now once again positioned in Pisces after a brief time in the corner of Pegasus.  On this morning, Venus is magnitude -4.24 and still huge at 56.65" in diameter with a phase of 3.9%.  Perhaps in a week or so, we will be able to see Saturn and Mercury in the same field (they are both still below the horizon at the time of this image, but gaining altitude each day).  Unannotated image