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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Camera phones are very wide angle, so they can get a selfie shot without needing for you to have 10 foot long arms. That’s not good for long distance things, and the Moon is very far away. Your mind’s ability to focus your gaze on the Moon and ignore all the surrounding black sky is the sort of thing that we’re still not quite able to do in software.

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