The moon is a harsh mistress. It’s also famously difficult to photograph. It’s so much smaller in the frame than you expect, and despite the fact that it’s dark out, the moon is in direct sunlight, so it’s quite easy to overexpose. It’s also moving fairly fast, so tends to drift out of your carefully-composed frame.
Tonight’s moon is supposedly larger than usual due to being close to perigee, and so I figured it was a good candidate for today’s photo.
I have an old manual-focus 500mm reflex lens for my camera. I attempted this shot a couple years ago with my old camera, but the new one has a few technical advances that make this lens easier to use. Even with this extreme focal length (equivalent to 15x binoculars), today’s photo is cropped.