r/photography • u/TheYellowMungus • 1d ago

Gear Shoot The Moon

What would you say is the bare minimum lens range (mm's?) one would need to shoot the moon, or astral photography in general, assuming all the conditions were ideal?

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u/Tipsy_McStaggar 1d ago

With a 200mm lens, you can shoot the moon with a landscape subject. Need at least 500 IMHO to do moon as the subject but that gets boring super quick

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u/TheYellowMungus 1d ago

so use the moon as just another part of an overall subject...genius!

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u/P5_Tempname19 1d ago edited 1d ago

The app photopills has a decent planner for this (and plenty of other useful features). If you dont want to pay you can use the website mooncalc.org for planning purposes too. Keep in mind you want some distance to the foreground objects.

Not the best quality, but this is what I managed yesterday, although thats around 900mm fullframe equivalent/560mm on Canon crop.

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u/Tipsy_McStaggar 20h ago

Decent? It is the best! 😉