I saw the moon was rising at 7:30 and setting at 6:30. An eleven hour trek across the sky meant the moon should be overhead 5.5 hrs after it rose or 1AM. Since I am not at the center of the moon's orbit it was never directly over head and didn't clear the trees until after 2:15AM!
This image was shot by Nikon D700 wearing a 70-200mm f/2.8 VR Nikon lens at 200mm with a 1.4x teleconverter. Tried the same image with a Fuji S5 thinking the APS-C sensor would pull me in closer and make for a better photo but the D700 shows so much more detail and produces much less noise. Tripod mounted: f/8, ISO 200 at 1/320s.
This image is HEAVILY cropped. The moon is tiny in the sky and if it is 15% larger than normal it is still tiny. My guess is that to fill the frame you would have to be shooting at >1000mm.
Uncropped image.
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