Here is another montage of Venus and Mercury captured in daylight on the afternoon of 9 March 2025.

Venus's crescent is rapidly becoming more slender as it approaches inferior conjuntion on 20 March. Mercury reached greatest eastern elongation in it's current orbit on 8 March, so it too is starting it's inward journey between the Earth and Sun, hence now showing slightly less than 50% phase. The planets are getting closer to each other in the sky, but the below image is just a montage showing them at the same image scale and does not reflect their respective sky positions. Both planets were captured through my C14 using an ASI462MC colour camera with an IR742 filter to help stabalise the seeing, so these are mono, not colour images.

Masks were used to clean the sky background and areas on the dark side of both terminators, but hopefully I've respected the correct position of both planets discs and terminators by careful application of the masks.