Full Moon

There are few things more spectacular than a full moon on a clear night. What I especially love is taking pictures and being able to see all of the craters and terrain of the moon.

To get this shot I was at a focal length of 300mm, f/stop 5.6, and exposure time was 1/4000 sec. I found the key to shooting the full moon after lots of trial and error is to keep the exposure time as low as possible. The lowest on the Nikon D90, is 1/4000 which worked perfectly, at 1/3200 the moon was losing detail and at 1/2500 it was just a bight white ball.

My next project is to rig my D90 to a telescope to hopefully get even greater shots of the moon.