Shooting in very low light

I am experimenting with night-shooting, and there is a tree in my yard that I would very much like to photograph. There is a porch light on it, and I can see it very well.  I have learned about 'bulb' shooting in manual mode, and have used it in other low-light situations, but for some reason I can't get the camera to fire.  It focuses and then the square in the view-finder turns red, rather than green.  I think it's really important to note that I can see this tree just fine.  So why can't my camera?
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Use low ISO values to reduce noise.  You can perform noise reduction with some computer software (my favorite is Noiseware Pro by Imagenomic.)  But keep in mind that noise reduction in software also has the side-effect of softening the image (and if you go too far it looks like people have "plastic" skin.)
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