Why is so dang hard to take a good picture of the moon in the night sky?
In: Technology
Where the question has already been answered, I’ll take this opportunity to plug a book I recently started reading that you might enjoy. Starlight Detectives: How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe by Alan Hirshfeld. The first part of the book is all about how early (modern) astronomers had a horrible time trying to photograph celestial objects like the moon.
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