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Originally Posted by LEAKYSEALS951

yeah, the moon was overhead, and it made it hard to point the camera straight up at it. The camera would hit the tripod when you bent it back that far. It was too windy to try to do some offset tripod setup. Wind is howling outside. Had to basically lay on the ground and point head up to get shot. Stillest shot of the night was this one, but it got cropped off the frame. Also hands got too numb to adjust camera settings. Said "screw it" and went inside.



Here are some others:

Some really great shots. I especially like the one with the brighter exposure that showed some background stars. Shooting the moon to get background stars is always a pain because you blow out the detail on the moon, but get the stars. In the past where there was a conjunction of something like Pleiades, I'd take a couple of exposures and use photoshop to merge them.