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Osbourne One-Nil, on 07 March 2012 - 10:55 , said:

With the Moon about you're going to find it difficult as with the longer exposure you're just going to increase the amount of Moon glow you capture.

ISO6400 might capture fainter stars but it also captures more noise, so you don't really gain much. I'd knock the ISO down to about 400, and then perhaps take lots of 20 second exposures. You can then "stack" them (you'll have to Google for some more info on this) which sort of draws out detail that can't be seen in any one individual photo. Without some means of tracking, I suspect that's your best bet.

Here's a 1sec exposure I took at ISO6400 to check focus, but there was no Moon and my skies are very dark.

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Right, I get it. Nice one
One problem though, I don't think I can change the exposure length.

[Osbourne One-Nil]

I'd be very surprised if you couldn't - doesn't it have a mode called shutter priority?

Ideally you want full manual control, with the longest exposure you can get, and the aperture wide open (although not fully open generally). If you can link me to the instruction manual (if it's online) I'll take a look for you. You won't have what's called a bulb setting though - that's where you can leave the shutter open as long as you like. You'll probably have a 30 second limit.

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Osbourne One-Nil, on 07 March 2012 - 12:07 , said:

I'd be very surprised if you couldn't - doesn't it have a mode called shutter priority?

Ideally you want full manual control, with the longest exposure you can get, and the aperture wide open (although not fully open generally). If you can link me to the instruction manual (if it's online) I'll take a look for you. You won't have what's called a bulb setting though - that's where you can leave the shutter open as long as you like. You'll probably have a 30 second limit.

That'd be great
http://support.nikon...digital-photography

It's a 12mb PDF download. The English one preferably, unless you prefer to speak Spanish?

Edited by Goku, 07 March 2012 - 15:51 .

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Here's a good moon pic

[Osbourne One-Nil]

Must be a fake, as we never landed there really did we?

Goku, on 07 March 2012 - 15:46 , said:

That'd be great
http://support.nikon...digital-photography

It's a 12mb PDF download. The English one preferably, unless you prefer to speak Spanish?

Nope - you don't appear to have shutter priority or manual exposure, so I'm not sure it's going to be possible to capture much in the way of stars or planets I'm afraid.

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Osbourne One-Nil, on 09 March 2012 - 22:33 , said:

Must be a fake, as we never landed there really did we?

Nope - you don't appear to have shutter priority or manual exposure, so I'm not sure it's going to be possible to capture much in the way of stars or planets I'm afraid.

Damn, that sucks.
When I next upgrade my camera I'll make sure I have full manual control, as I'm moving out of the realms of 'noob'
Thanks for your help.

[Osbourne One-Nil]

Here's another one I took last night. Venus, Jupiter and Pleiades, all in one frame.

[BornFromTheVoid]

Very nice OON, Venus especially looks incredible in that. What settings did you use?

[Osbourne One-Nil]

That was a 3min exposure at ISO 400 and f5.6. I think the rays coming from Venus are just down to lens flare from the lens iris. Don't really have a clue what I'm doing yet, but the photos look pretty which is all I really care about!

[Osbourne One-Nil]

Here's tonight's effort - Auriga, high in the west with the Milky Way running through it. You can even make out two open clusters; M37 & M38, both of which are about 4000 light years away.

[Osbourne One-Nil]

Here are another couple of shots - one of the Pleiades (with the mount not properly aligned) which shows some nebulosity nicely, and one of the Orion Nebula taken a few minutes ago with just a 15 second exposure...the sky wasn't even properly dark!

[Osbourne One-Nil]

And here's a 5 minute exposure at ISO200.

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Venus is next to the Pleiades tonight, so I nipped out, caught a break in the clouds and then thought I'd try with the cloud coming back over. Quite pleased with both of them!

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Osbourne One-Nil, on 04 April 2012 - 21:54 , said:

Venus is next to the Pleiades tonight, so I nipped out, caught a break in the clouds and then thought I'd try with the cloud coming back over. Quite pleased with both of them!

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Great photos OON.

Edited by weather ship, 04 April 2012 - 22:12 .

[BornFromTheVoid]

Here's my own attempt anywho. A 20s exposure of Venus.