Why can my naked eye see the full moon clearly, but my phone camera can’t?

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This morning as I was going to work, the full moon was in the sky and very bright. I could clearly see the dark spots on it. I got my phone out (after stopping) and thought to get a picture, but no matter how I tried to focus the camera, it couldn’t see the moon as anything but a bright ball of light, like looking into a flashlight. Why was it so difficult for my phone to capture this image that my eye could see so clearly?

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Your eyes are essentially ~350Mp cameras with AI light attenuation. Your phone camera is likely around 13Mp, with no AI built in to determine what’s what.

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