Not quite right

I shot a perfectly respectable picture of the moon through the trees in the backyard a few minutes ago. This picture shows the Moon from that picture.

But I then tried to lighten the shot to bring up the outlines of the trees' branches and leaves. That did not happen. Instead I got a large number of little dots of light. They were just digital noise but they looked a little like a sky full of stars. Liking that fakery, I cloned the moon back into the picture and this is the result.

[Don't try to find any constellations. No, that is not Orion's belt.]