Optimizing moon rise pics

Thanks. Impressive you were able to achieve this with minimal edits to the RAW file and not having to use anything advanced other than just the basic exposure, highlights adjustments. I upped the saturation a bit to show the red light of the setting sun and the twilight sky a little more but other than that it looked perfect! And you are right, not adjusting the dynamic range worked out better as that made the moon a little brighter to mirror what the eye actually sees.