On Sep 21, 9:18*am, Sam Wormley wrote:
On 9/21/12 2:39 AM, Paul Ciszek wrote:

My camera has a choice of "white balance" settings. *If I use "Sunlight"
on the assumption that the moon is a sunlight landscape, photos of the
moon come out looking a little brownish. *If I use "Auto", the moon
appears nearly colorless. *The former coloration is not implausible,
but which is closer to the truth?

Fortunately, I can make this decision retroactively for photos shot
in RAW mode.

* *http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2011/05/tr...-the-moon.html

* *Also here is an interesting article:
* * *http://www.colormoon.pt.to

And yet your NASA/Apollo era found only a mostly monochromatic and
inert moon that on average seemed to reflect at 64%.