After spending much of the day getting ready for traveling home, the sky gave a nice show. That funny white dot is the crescent Moon with the dark side illuminated with Earthshine. Neat in person, not too bad for a cellphone!
A little closer.
And as a close up*…while it looks like you can see features on the dark side the lighted side is completely blown out. This is the main reason other than size (the Moon is much smaller than it appears) that Moon photos don’t work: When you shoot the Moon, what you are doing is shooting a DAYTIME shot. What you see is the sunlight, just like what we see in the daytime, and you need to expose for DAYLIGHT. It s not a nighttime photo.
*While cellphones are great cameras and some take amazing sky photos, there are some technical limits. My 400mm Canon telephoto will give a completely, and much more details, image. This is as good as it gets with my iPhone.
~Curtis in Arizona for one more night! {!-{>
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