Looked up and there's the moon!!!

Canon 7D is a great camera (obviously). What I would do in a situation like that is take a photo with less exposure like your last pic, take it in the .RAW format, then use photoshop or something similar and adjust the lighting for the dark to brighten out and bring the brighter areas down a touch. It's amazing what you will be able to bring out of the picture that you can't see at first.