Compare to the full moon images, earlier in the week. The oblique angle of the sun highlights the surface detail much more. This was done with the same 300mm lens as my previous gallery entry near the top, but with a new Kenko 2X teleconverter attached, necessitating manual focus. The 100% crop barely fit in the 600 pixel frame-size, here, so I resized it down to 78% (1024 -> 800) which makes it crisper when sharpened. The noise was reduced via stacking 11 images with Registax, and it was sharpened in Noise Ninja 2 w/Suppress Halos on, 300% radius 1, but no noise-profile. The contrast is slightly higher due to the stacking, but otherwise unadjusted, and the color is as shot using the lunar-calibrated custom white balance. To the naked eye, the moon was slightly orange due to it's proximity to the horizon.