I've heard the moon's surface is the color of street asphalt, it looks yellow white like reflected sunlight but only because the black sky is behind it.

I learned if you want to take a properly exposed photograph of the moon, go out during a bright sunny day and get a meter reading of the street. Set your camera for that light level and then use that shutter/exposure combination on the moon.

It will come out perfectly exposed. Don't just use the light meter on the moon itself, because the camera will try and average out the black sky and bright moon and the moon will come out overexposed.

The trick also works at the beach. If you want to take a picture of someone standing in the shade under an umbrella on white sand in bright sunlight, take your meter reading by walking up to your subject and setting the exposure for their shaded face. Then walk back into the sun and take your shot. The face will come out perfectly exposed, although the beach will come out over-exposed.