One Moon, a telescope, a smartphone, free software, one Pear and a dream: to explore astrophotography in the most amateur and improvised ways. Taken yesterday (2026/03/03) in São Paulo, Brazil.

Some pseudotechnical info!
- I used a simple telescope at 25x in a tripod
- So I positioned the smartphone over the eyepiece, trying my best to align the lens, and took ten photos with my own little paws
- Ah, I used the so called "pro" settings in my smartphone, managed to use 1/125 and ISO 100 (yeah the moon was that bright!)
- Made an improvised and manual photo stacking winth GIMP (in the future I'll try specific softwares for that!)
- Enhanced a bit sharpness and contrast, but not much
- You can see a nice chromatic aberration. I know it is a technical nightmare, but I find it pretty so I took 0 effort fix it

That's it! That's probably a nightmare to my STEM followers, sorry, but I had fun. Might try again in the future (probably during other moon phases!)

Stay tuned 🔭

🌟 2026 carrd | ☕️ Ko-fi 🌟

ID. A pretty photo of a full moon as it is seen from the Earth Southern Hemisphere in a telescope. There is some chromatic aberration. End ID.