When we had the so-called ‘super’ moon back in March 2011, I went out with my camera to take some shots of it.

Almost a year later, admittedly with improved camera gear, I went out to shoot a perfectly normal phase of the Moon, and the results were far better – being able to see the lunar night halfway across the face of the Moon brought out the craters and made the it look like an actual ball of rock in space, not just an illuminated disc in the sky.