Great blue moon. While most of those 400,000km is vacuum that does not change contrast 
, atmospheric conditions must have been really good to get that great detail. Is my assumption that it is a composite correct? The trees look a little too much in focus to be a single capture?
Not a composite, I shot a whole sequence (handheld) on a very clear evening, sitting on an easy chair. Air is like that in Queyras, very very dry
Included is the next photo; actually the counter marks 5 more than previous, I was shooting with a 5-exposure bracketing (between -1.3 and +1.3) and then selected the best exposure: -0.7 in both instances.
Those larch trees were approximately 500-600m away; I was curious as to the distance reported in the EXIF, so I looked it up: 133.35 (*) meters (the EXIF reported distance is far from accurate, at least in macro I found a lot of variation from what I actually measured with a tape measure). For the moon I use AF-C linked to the AF-ON button only. Focussing was done on the moon, and then nothing was touched across the sequences (only refocussing once in a while, to make sure I did not touch the focussing ring...)
The VR function in that lens really makes miracles!
Ciao from Massimo
(*) 133.35 m, that would be the distance of the Moon, it's the focussing distance that's reported from the circuitry to the EXIF. That's the highest value that the lens reports even when focussed beyond infinity.
