how do i take photos of the moon with my iphone 11pro

how do i take photos of the moon with my iphone 11pro?

Posted on Feb 7, 2020 4:48 PM

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Feb 8, 2020 1:13 AM in response to paulbpaulb

Have you tapped the moon on the display to fix the exposure for the moon? You need to be sure, that the image will be under exposed. The moon is too bright compared to the night sky. So you have to measure the exposure for the moon, not the dark sky.

The second problem is the small size of the moon. The moon has a diameter of only half a degree.

And even the tele lens of the iPhone 11 Pro Max is not sufficient to get a picture of the moon that is not blurry, when viewed enlarged. You will have to zoom in by a factor of 40 to fifty get a picture of the Moon with details. So you will need to use the digital zoom, and the image will have a poor resolution an result in blurry images. The tele lens of the iPhone has a focal length of six millimetre; giving you an optical zoom factor of two. When I take a picture of the Moon with my Lumix camera (optical zoom 42 times, f=108 mm), I can see already some craters on the Moon. But even with the an extreme underexposure, the bright surface of the Moon has overexposed parts.


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