Imaging the Moon in Broad Daylight !

 Imaging the Moon in broad daylight is challenging... so much sky blue and heat waves that can distort or minimize sharpness. While there is little one can do about the heat distortion and lack of sharpness one can take reasonably good images of the Moon all the same!

Here is what the Moon looked like at nearly 10 am in the morning on September 9, 2020 taken with an Explore Scientific AR-127 achromatic refractor and a Canon XS camera at prime focus, full image (no cropping):

Now how to get rid of the blue. Desaturate the image...

and then increase the contrast, controlling it with Levels or Curves in GIMP, PS, etc...

Let's zoom in a little closer...

Not too bad at all when imaging the Moon in broad daylight !