Emit light without fading texture?

I want to make a moon with light rays surrounding it but when I make my moon glow, it becomes a white ball. I want to emit light rays without losing the detail of my moon

Search GLOW on the Youtube. You can find several tutorials.

That’s nice and all, but every tutorial on glow I’ve seen has me emitting my moon, which is great, but all of the detail from the moon (the dark spots) disappear. I don’t want a ball of light. The moon has crater and stuff that I want to show in my renders.

Hello,
You can snap a light ( spot, for example ) on the moon.

You can create glow with COMPOSITING PANEL or Photoshop like programs, not with emit. Emit generally uses for light sources, like bulb, sun etc.

Example watch this video: