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Originally Posted by masraum
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.
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Thanks, I had forgotten about the event, but saw this thread and ran out with the camera. I should have taken some bracketted exposures to make some composite shots, but it was soooo windy, I was scared the whole tripod assembly was going to blow over, and my hands got too numb to mess with settings. I was also just trying to time lulls in the wind for exposures. The other challenge was with the moon straight overhead, I couldn't see where I was pointing the camera, and there was nothing to frame the moon against. I also couldn't see the screen to evaluate how my exposure settings were working/ needed to be tweaked.
All in all, I was 'okay' with the pics considering how much the wind was shaking the camera. It was bad!