Mercury, Moon, Venus, Saturn & Discovery from this morni

sorry to resurrect an older post but this photo are great Frank.

I have a question, as you are using the manual settings on the camera how did you know that any longer of an exposure would have caused the image to be over exposed?

Did you do a test shot first or did you just know from experience?

Judging from the image i think Frank knew from experience.

You dont catch an image like that on a whim.