Originally Posted By: tanstaafl.
Not possible. The moon is more than 4,000 times brighter than the surrounding terrain. I can expose for the moon and end up with a nice round circle in the middle of a solid black photograph... or I can have a little bit of detail in the foreground with an absolutely blank ragged white overexposed circle up in the sky.

The moon has to be pasted.


Or you can make it a high dynamic range photograph. Essentially doing the same thing, but without the pasting.
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