The moon looked yellow in my old photos, but it's actually gray in these new ones

I pulled out shots from 2012 taken on my old Canon 60D and compared them to what I captured last week with a dedicated astronomy camera. The difference is wild, the old ones show a warm yellowish moon while the new ones are stark gray and heavily cratered. That color shift comes from white balance and atmospheric scattering, not the moon itself, my old camera was just guessing the color. I actually prefer the yellow look for aesthetics, but the gray version feels more honest to what's really up there. Anyone else notice their early photos have this color shift that they ended up liking more than the realistic version?

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faith_carter7d ago

Yellow just feels like how a moon should look, even if the gray one is real.