As I began to truly look up at the night sky the moon was a sense of wonder and astonishment. To look closer with a telescope at the craters and detail that exists, that, that was absolute amazement. My first few shots were just aligning my iPhone to the eyepiece. I then got lucky just a few weeks after starting to look through a telescope to have the pleasure of watching a total lunar eclipse. I have never been so cold in my life that night taking some of those pictures, but it solidified the idea that Trevor from Astrobackyard once said in a video, "losing a night of sleep (or in this case some body heat and comfortablity) for a picture you can enjoy for a lifetime, that is something that is worth it." It was definitely the moon that made me fall in love with the night sky, ficle and elusive, but reliable and constant.

All of these pictures above were taken with an iPhone XR, lined up to an eyepiece. I wish I had been able to use my DSLR when the 2019 lunar eclipse happened.

If you have a telescope and a DSLR camera around somewhere, get yourself a T-ring adapter (Amazon). Just make sure you get the one that corresponds to your specific brand DSLR. The difference in the moon images alone is striking and wonderfully fantastic.