I ran out and took several photographs.
The camera has a pretty good pre-setting for the moon, but when you try to use it to take photos of the moon and anything else, the moon washes everything out.
So... to get a more balanced photo, I have to manually set the camera for infinity focus, the F-stop to F8, and play with the shutter speed. Usually 1/5 to about 1/20 of a second will come out with an interesting shot... although the moon will still wash everything out.
At the moment, the moon's above the ecliptic... which seems odd, because I thought it was pretty close to its north ascending node -- I guess I'll have to look up where that is. Or... maybe Mars is below the ecliptic and the Moon is on it. In any case, they're about three finger-widths apart.
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