What if you get the itch to do some astro-photography,
but the moon is washing the sky out? As the song says,
"...love the one you're with!"
Use a tripod and a 200mm or longer lens.
You won't need a motorized telescope mount because the exposure time
required to capture the bright moon is pretty short, even when it's not full.
Set your exposure to f/11 and the shutter speed to one over the ISO film-speed
(e.g., f/11 and 1/400 th of a second for ISO 400 film).
The moon is illuminated by the full light of the sun.
Reflecting to us, the light is filtered lightly by Earth's atmosphere.
You could say the same about someone's face in full sun, in which case
you'd apply the "sunny 16 rule" and set f/16 and 1/film-speed.
Why not in this case? OK, the moon is made of dull gray rock.
But we see it at night when our eyes are night-adapted so it looks bright white.
To make the moon look white on film, you have to overexpose by one f-stop,
i.e., use f/11 instead of f/16.
