Strawberry moon 2021: how to take a good photograph of the full supermoon on your phone or camera with the right settings

Guardian Australia picture editor Carly Earl explains the dos and don'ts of shooting June's super moon

With another full supermoon rising - this time the June strawberry moon' on Thursday night across the world - many people will pull out their mobile phones to try and get an Instagram-worthy photograph, but unfortunately it's really challenging to take a great picture of the moon.

Two reasons: it is very far away and unless you have a telephoto lens (which makes the moon appear closer than it is) it will always appear as a very small glowing dot in the frame.