August full moon: how to take a good photograph of the Sturgeon supermoon on your phone or camera tonight

Guardian Australia picture editor Carly Earl explains the dos and don'ts of photographing the celestial spectacle, the last super moon of of 2022

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With a sturgeon' supermoon rising tonight, many people will pull out their mobile phones to try and get an Instagram-worthy photograph, but unfortunately the full moon is really challenging to get a great photo of.

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.