Challenge: How to do this properly?

[fsendel]

The only reasonable way to do this and get a crisp sharp moon is through the use of some form of HDR. The moon is reflected sunlight and as such is extremely bright. The mountain, at night, is extremely dark. There are no settings on pretty much any camera that will get both properly exposed. What you need to do is take one shot to expose the mountains and take one shot to expose the moon and combine them in post processing either manually through the use of layers in something like Photoshop or Gimp or "automagically" through the use of HDR software which does it through tone mapping.

I hope this helps.

Thank you Iguanasan. This makes sense.