Somebody Lastly Took a Good iPhone Picture of the Moon. Good Luck Copying Their Trick

“How do you really take a superb moon image with iphone?” wondered Redditor xLofty in a submit three years in the past. 

The moon seems to be to most newbie photographers like a vibrant element on a totally darkish background, and it seems to be about half the width if one fingernail on an outstretched hand. That makes it difficult to shoot with an iPhone, as anybody who has ever tried it might probably attest.

However the top voted reply from consumer seoulitude had a intelligent hack: seize your picture whereas taking 4k video, permitting you simpler and extra granular management of the publicity, focus, and telephoto zoom (versus digital zoom). 

One of many Artemis II astronauts (it’s not but clear which) has a greater concept: merely go proper as much as the moon.

Artemis astronauts now sharing photographs of the moon they’ve taken with their iPhones.

The lights are switched off on the spaceship to allow them to take photographs higher. pic.twitter.com/LEl5i9CH0c

— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) April 6, 2026

As I famous over the weekend, the Artemis astronauts’ suits were equipped with iPhones once they left on their NASA lunar flyby mission. Earlier on Monday, they ventured further from Earth than anyone has ever gone before, after which went a bit additional as they reached the lunar neighborhood, roughly the midpoint of their ten-day journey.

However X user Scott Bryan caught the second on the NASA reside video stream when, with lunar canyons and craters tantalizingly seen, the astronauts confirmed off their distinctive iPhone moon pictures alternative. 

It’s such a sublime pictures trick. Why didn’t I consider it myself?