Taken with a tripod, manual exposure but, in the dark I didn’t record the settings, on a Fuji “too many controls” digital camera at “darn close” to the full moon moment. The image was cropped this morning and levels tweaked (well, “hammered” would be a better choice of terms) in Paint.Net, my favorite free image editing program. (Looks like I blew the focus. Or maybe, between enlargement in the camera and enlargement in Paint.Net, I’ve just run out of pixels. Regardless, it’s a done thing.)Here’s the EXIF data if you’re into that kind’a stuff (via http://regex.info/exif.cgi, HTML edited for clarity):

Basic Image Information

Camera: Fujifilm FinePix F505EXR
Lens: 66 mm
(Max aperture f/3.5)
Exposure: Auto exposure, Shutter priority AE, 1/1,024 sec, f/5.3, ISO 800
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Focus: Auto
Date: May 5, 2012   10:25:28PM (timezone not specified)
(10 hours, 29 minutes, 49 seconds ago, assuming image timezone of US Pacific)
File: 561 × 571 JPEG
104,466 bytes (0.100 megabytes)     Image compression: 89%
2% crop of the 4,608 × 3,456 (15.9 megapixel) original

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