I thought I'd share this shot which I took tonight in England with the D7i.
200mm, digital zoom, 25% center crop.
Tripod. Manual 1/3, f8. superfine, large.
It doesn't compare to anything taken with a telescope, but it did capture the Earthshine, and the noise in the original was pleasingly low. I allowed it Auto ISO at first and I recall it was 200 in the shot.

Has anyone had a go at this kind of night shot with the A2?

Regards,
John.

Nice! I took the wide angle approach... -Bryan

Hi, Bryan, Thanks.
Is there a special knack to getting the colors of twilight sky and the very bright Moon to stay natural looking in one take? I suppose the human eye gets dark conditioned and we have to try and make the camera simulate that with an orangey-yellow moon?
Regards,
John.

Well, in my case I didn't do it right. I should have used a fixed white balance (sunny) for this. The camera goes a little crazy when trying to white balance a shot like that that is mostly one color. Also, I should have been out there about 20-30 minutes earlier so that the sky would be brighter. As it was, the exposure had to be 30s to get the sky, and that overexposed the Moon. The Moon is as bright as a sunlit surface (something with low reflectivity though, like old concrete) so you really have a hard time getting the Moon properly exposed with the sky.
Bryan

That's one big picture John. I had to scroll side to side and up and down to see the whole thing. This just goes to prove that I do NEED a bigger screen.

I ran out for only a minute as it was too cold for me tonight. Handheld 1/90, F3.5, ISO 100, manual focus, and cropped the heck out of it in PS

Hi,
Yes,... well it kind of got away before I realised I was uploading a version that was 4" wide and 300dpi. Didn't mean to hog the screen! Now your shot has the moon's colour nicely retained. Also you'd be further south than me at 51N (diff. angle of the Moon's crescent)?
Regards,
John.

Hi John,

I've read somewhere (and experienced) that to retain the colours and even see some patterns in the moon you had to expose for daytime. Meaning closer to 1/250 than 1/3 for speed.

Julie
ps: maybe you knew that and just tried something different...