September full moon 2022: how to take a good photograph of the harvest moon on your phone or camera

Guardian Australia picture editor Carly Earl explains the dos and don'ts of photographing the moon

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With the September 2022 full moon rising, many people will pull out their mobile phones to try and get an Instagram-worthy photograph, but unfortunately the 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.