>We observed this from here and that is the coloration we saw. However, it appeared much smaller because of course the moon was about 45 degrees above our horizon....
The angular size of the moon has not much to do with how high it is. It seems this way to us, but this is a psychological effect, and will not affect photographs.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)