I Used Photoshop: contrast, saturation and Crop

Yesterday I took a photo of the thin waxing crescent moon, just 15 hours old. I was waiting for so long to try this shoot. All the favorable conditions were there:

- The moon was about 7 degrees from the sun.

- The moon was close to perigee, it's closest point to Earth (it would have reached it on August 21).

- Good visibility on the horizon.

I tried to shoot without using computer tools to point at the moon so I only used the camera mounted on a normal tripod. I didn't see the moon with the unaided eye, but I knew the moon would have passed in front of my lens at 8 o'clock (from my position). And so it was: processing the image I managed to get the very thin sickle.

On the August 18, at dawn, I also took the thin waning crescent moon 20 minutes before sunrise.