Originally Posted by
The Hedgehog
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I wasn't particularly happy with the first one. I noticed that on my 70-300mm I get a lot of haze at night from the city. Will a ND filter help correct that? It's really hard to get the moon, so any tips for shooting the moon at night would be awesome!
ND will make it worse. You need to shorten your shutter speeds. Long shutter speeds are why you have a trail on the moon.
Also, counter intuitively, shooting at night requires higher f-stops. f/11-16 will typically get you the least amount of haze and lens flare and just shitty artifacting like you have in that first shot.