In today's image, we see the thin crescent Moon behind the temple of Poseidon in Greece. The very thin crescent phase is the most difficult to find in the sky since the thin crescent is always near the Sun in the sky and can only be seen briefly shortly after sunset or shortly before sunrise.

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