However, I decided to go minimalist and use both the iPhone 16 Pro Max and Google Pixel 9 Pro XL — sans the recommended equipment — to capture photos of the moon.I wanted to see what each can ...

And I definitely needed much more than 5x zoom to see the moon in all of its glory. In fact, I zoomed in to the max — 25x to be exact — to capture the waxing gibbous moon on the iPhone 16 Pro Max.

Max (the dog) and a young girl named Tori take the first trip to the Moon since the Apollo era. Along the way, the story sets the stage for the more sophisticated science of the “Big Kid Box” sidebars ...