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Hi, Ok I want to get a photo at night with both the moon and stars, but!! it will be more than a 30 second exposure this will give star trails but will it also affect the moon (moon trail) and I assume will blow out the moon so what is the work around for this please?
Thanks for any advice
Russ
 
The moon is much too bright for a single slow exposure.

The only work around I could see would be to take an image of the moon correctly exposed which will probably be much too brief to record any stars, then take your starfield exposure (do not include the moon in this image) and then combine the two.
 
Full moon shot would be 1/100 f8 ISO100 as starters, no way would you get stars at that exposure. Merging in PP is the only way but it would look odd.
 
There is no work around. It's why the footage from the Moon's surface taken by the Apollo Astronauts show no stars in the sky. According to the consipracy morons it shows that the footage wasn't taken on the Moon.
 
OK thanks people, will give it a go see what happens.
 
suggs said:
what lens would you need for a moon shot?
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I just took a shot of the moon with my 300mm plus 1.4tc on a cropped body and although I need to crop a lot, its still an ok size.
 
I am finding it difficult to get a moon shot pin sharp as the photo above :(

Have you done any PP on the image?

Al
 
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xxalxx said:
I am finding it difficult to get a moon shot pin sharp as the photo above :(

Have you done any PP on the image?

Al
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As Bandy said, it's heavily cropped and remember that was at effectively 630mm. There's no PP on that at all, it's direct from camera except for the crop, at 1000th/s
 
i'm about to try a moon shot using my telescope. Just got the adapter to attach my d40 to it. All i need now is a break in the clouds.:tumbleweed:
 
htid said:
What lens are you using but the way?
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I only have access to the 18-55MN IS kit + 55-250 IS. I have been using the -55-250 so far, also been using AEB so I get at least 1 correctly exposed shot!
 
The best option for star trails where you dont or cant have a long enough exposure is to take a lot of shots of the correct exposure and stick them together in Startrails.de (free software) or photoshop.

That said, getting an exposure to not burn the moon out is likely to remove any stars from the photo anyway
 
I shot this using the 450D with the 18-55 kit lens,
It's 260 shot's at 30 seconds each stiched together using Startrails.de, so it can be done with the kit you have but as others have said if you want to include the moon your going to have to add that in pp.


St Mary's Lighthouse by KeenBfB, on Flickr
 
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chrizzy184 said:
hi, what size lens did you use for this shot.
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EXIF info gives the following:

Exposure 0.001 sec (1/1000)
Aperture f/5.6
Focal Length 420 mm
ISO Speed 200
Exposure Bias 0 EV




After having an attempt at moon photography at the weekend and only coming up with the below image, I'm very impressed at your guys photos :D

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chrizzy184 said:
i tried to shoot the moon with a 70mm only got a spot of light.
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Yes, most people are surprised at just how small the Moon really is. It can be fun asking people how far away they need to hold a small coin (US Dime, UK 5p, Euro 1c) to just about cover the Full Moon. A lot of people's arms will be too short to do it!

Here's an uncropped shot at 840mm on a 7D.

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