Shoot the Moon

Nice work! I have to agree that the D80, nice as it is, is not ideal for night shots.

Nice shots! 

Merco I tried to do something like a 1 minute shot at iso 400 once and the entire side of my pic was purple. I had to make it a black and white just on the side to fix it. Luckily it was just stars so I could do that without anyone noticing. And thanks everyone. 

These are awesome!

I wanted to try and catch the meteor shower just gone, but having never attempted it chickened out... plus i was very tired.

Thank you. There will be plenty of meteor showers to shoot. I'm looking forward to those. I find that taking a small nap and drinking a cup of coffee right before I fall asleep works great. Sometimes too great. Dark coffee. Black as night. I got some coffee that was so damn powerful I had two cups and thought I was going to explode. I think it had the equivalent of 50 red bulls and 90 jolt colas worth of caffeine in it. 

Sorry I took so long Thumper. Getting ready for my wedding. seasky.org should have everything that will happen astro related. I also liked several different ones on facebook and some Aurora Borealis sites just in case those fire enough to see in Iowa or if I travel.