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Hi Jayden
The advice for shooting the moon others have given appears fine. One thing I can help is what the specs of your lense mean.
The IS means Image Stabiliser. The lenses attempts to counteract small instability in hand held shots. There is a switch on your lense to turn this feature on and off. If shooting on a tripod, turn it off, it is only of help when hand holding.
The 55-250mm refers to the zoom range of your lense, 55mm gives a wide field, 250mm gives a narrow field or is "zoomed in".
The term f4-5.6 refers to the aperture of the lense. The first number says that at 55mm the widest aperture is f4 and the second number means that at 250mm the widest is f5.6. Obviously in M or AV mode you can set a narrower aperture it just tells you the widest possible.
On non zoom lenses and more expensive zooms you will fee a single number eg f2.8. This means that that widest aperture is always available.
the ii simply means it is the second version of this lense.
Oh and the EFS refers to the type of mounting. In Canons there are 2 types of mounting. EF means Electronic focusing and this is the universal Canon mount. You can use EF lenses on all Canon EOS DSLR cameras. EFS lenses are a cheaper mount type that can only be use on non full frame cameras such as yours. On 1D and 5D, the EFS mount will not work.
With shooting the moon when I had the same lense and my old 400d ( the predecessor to your camera) I found the following work OK. Mount on tripod, set mode to AV, use an aperture a couple or so stops below 5.6, say 7.1 or 8, use a remote release or timer release, focus using autofocus on or near the terminator of the moon and let the camera do the rest.
Malcolm
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