Moon Photography help needed (OMD)

agent888 wrote:

My wife got me a tri-pod for Christmas, and with an amazon gift card or two I ordered a wireless remote shutter.

I tried a couple of shots of the moon last night with my Oly 45-150. I used the zoom feature to manually focus in on the moon. Using the zoom feature, what I see on the screen looks awesome.

I set ISO to 200, Aperture to 16, and I've played with the shutter speed up and down a bit around 600-1000.

What i don't get is, when I'm zoomed in for focusing at 14x the moon looks completely awesome. However, when i take the picture and zoom in to 14x while reviewing it looks nowhere near as good. It comes out very grainy and all the detail is lost.

What can I do? The remote shutter should come in today, so I plan on taking it out again tonight. Should I try my Oly 75mm on it instead of the 150?

I'd also really love to do some starfield shots too, it's kind of the only reason I wanted a tripod and remote shutter. Can anyone point me to some good how to website? I'm going to google it after I post this, but I know someone here knows the best place to find info. Will my Pan 20mm 1.7 be ok for a star field shot?