"Paul Ciszek" wrote in message ...
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If I tell my camera that the moon is a sunlit object (which it is), that
picture comes out orangey-brown. If I use WB Auto, it's still pretty
brown. If I turn off "Keep Warm Colors", then the moon comes out nearly
colorless like we *expect* it to be, but with weird faint magenta and
cyan patches which (to me, at least) indicate that it *had* a color
which has been subtracted away. According to the folks here, the "real"
color of the moon is somewhere in between brown and colorless, so I used
the WB Auto version and futzed with "color temperature" (which is
nothing of the kind) in Lightroom 3.6 to get a compromise.

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Who are these “we” that expect the moon to be colourless? Whatever
your expectations might be, I expect the Moon to be the colour it is.
I know brown is orange as this image demonstrates.
http://androcles01.pwp.blueyonder.co...e/illusion.JPG
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