What color is the moon?

On 21 Sep., 09:39, (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.

I hope I can be forgiven for going ever so slightly off topic:

I was shocked when I took Venus transit images with a new Canon Ixus
digital compact when the Sun came out as brown as hens eggs!

My relatively ancient Sony makes the Sun pink. In both cases I used
the same old, Baader foil, full aperture filter.