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Obligatory shot of just the moon Yup, it's the moon. I included this to document the exposure. Getting the moon right is tricky, since it's a small but bright object in the middle of a dark back...
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Olin Lathrop
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2020-08-10T15:40:38Z (over 4 years ago)
<h3>Obligatory shot of just the moon</h3>  Yup, it's the moon. I included this to document the exposure. Getting the moon right is tricky, since it's a small but bright object in the middle of a dark background. Anything with auto-exposure is going to mess this up, unless you have a very long lens so that the moon fills much of the frame. This picture was one of a series of exposure tests. The brightest parts of the moon were near, but not past, the top end of the sensor range. The parameters were: <b>ISO 200, f/8.0, 1/125 second</b> 5 Mar 2010 at 19:24, Groton Massachusetts, 300 mm lens, full frame (36 x 24 mm) sensor, cropped result.