How to Shoot the Moon.

[Grant]

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Before I fell in love with photography I was in love with Astronomy. In fact I still am.

Today I gave advice about shooting the moon. This image was shot on film using an old Pentax, and it was even old when I took this image. The camera was directly connected to a telescope but a coupler called a T-mount and therefor there was no camera lens involved.

Most people tend to over expose the moon. The easiest way to expose for the moon is to use the Sunny 16 rule. When you think of it the moon is directly light by the sun. There will may be a slight discrepancy caused by atmospheric extinction and a light grazing effect when the moon is past first or last quarter this may require a stop adjustment.

The sunny 16 just states set your shutter to the reciprocal of the ISO and shoot at f/16.



I took this image at 1/250, f/10 at ISO 100 and there is no vertical crop.