I'm wondering if this might piss off some Muslims, seeing as how an infidel detected the crescent moon at the start of "Ramadan" a couple days before Muslims saw it and started their rituals.
[link to legault.perso.sfr.fr]

Thierry Legault is perhaps the world's foremost satellite astrophotographer, though he's usually focused on spacecraft like ISS, and previously captured some of the best views of the shuttle in orbit ever seen by an observer on the ground. This month, however, he focused on our natural satellite, the moon. He was able to detect and record the crescent at new moon on July 8th, when the moon was only about 0.00000068% full according to my calculations. Quite the amazing accomplishment.