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<blockquote data-quote="nickt" data-source="post: 789595" data-attributes="member: 4923"><p>Manually focus on something distant (infinity) and leave it there. At my house, there is a very distant street light that I often focus on for my night sky shots. In manual focus the camera will not attempt to refocus on the sky and it should let you release the shutter regardless of focus. The night sky is too dark for autofocus. But if the moon is visible you can usually autofocus on the moon. Also use manual exposure with auto iso turned off. Play with shutter, aperture and iso settings. Keep iso fairly low. Start with 100 and only raise it if you must to keep the shutter speed faster. I don't know anything about star movement, but the moon is too fast moving for a slow exposure and will show a trail unless you use a fairly quick shutter speed. You can practice on distant street or house lights. Things in the sky are sunlit but tiny so your camera will badly over expose the scene if left on its own.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="nickt, post: 789595, member: 4923"] Manually focus on something distant (infinity) and leave it there. At my house, there is a very distant street light that I often focus on for my night sky shots. In manual focus the camera will not attempt to refocus on the sky and it should let you release the shutter regardless of focus. The night sky is too dark for autofocus. But if the moon is visible you can usually autofocus on the moon. Also use manual exposure with auto iso turned off. Play with shutter, aperture and iso settings. Keep iso fairly low. Start with 100 and only raise it if you must to keep the shutter speed faster. I don't know anything about star movement, but the moon is too fast moving for a slow exposure and will show a trail unless you use a fairly quick shutter speed. You can practice on distant street or house lights. Things in the sky are sunlit but tiny so your camera will badly over expose the scene if left on its own. [/QUOTE]

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