Wanting tips of full moon photo. using Nikon D80
I have a new Nikon D80 and not real famillar with the best settings for taking a photo of the full moon & stars, (with the trees in the foreground). Like a sillouette.
Then as the moon comes up over the trees, probably around 7.30pm, I would like to take a photo of the milky way with the full moon in full view.
I know I could read the book, but I've been too busy lately. So anyone with some simple settings for my camera, Nikon D80, would be great.
I also have photoshop elements 6.0 on windows xp.
Thankyou, from Debbie.
Debbie,
You're going to need multiple images to get a well exposed picture of the Moon and the Milky Way in a frame.
The Moon is the second brightest object in the sky, after the Sun. It's like shooting a well-lit white wall on a bright sunny day. Otherwise, you'll get an image of a boring white disk. There is some color on the surface of the Moon, which you will want to preserve, and plenty of detail.
This image of the Moon was shot at 1/200s. It's an uncropped image, but at low resolution for the web, hence the artifacts:
http://files.myopera.com/cperaloca/albums/92592/IMGP0340.jpg
The effective opening was appx. f/18. I used a 1,100mm f/11 catadioptric lens with a 1.7X teleconverter.
At that speed, you won't even get a hint of the Milky Way. To get a good image of the Milky Way, you'll need longer exposures, for which an equatorial lens is necessary. The Milky Way is not even visible from many urban areas because of light pollution.
The reason for multiple exposures for celestial bodies like the Milky Way as opposed to one extremely long exposure is that digital sensors overheat during very long exposures, thereby generating overwhelming digital chroma noise and sensor-blooming artifacts.
The next image consists of multiple, equatorial-mount, multiple-exposure composite shots of Andromeda with a 300mm lens:
http://files.myopera.com/cperaloca/albums/92592/Andromeda.jpg
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