Moon Photo taken in Griffith Observatory

I took below Moon photo in Griffith Observatory, it was challenging for me as this the first time I try to take a photo for the Moon. I used the 55-200 mm lens to zoom as close as possible and put the camera on Manual mode (Definitely tripod is needed).

After a couple of experiments with different combinations of shutter speed and aperture which always showed the moon as white circle without details, I come up with the best exposure settings.

I set the shutter speed to 1/2 seconds for a reasonable enough lighting without over expose the photo and set the aperture to the lowest value F/32 to get as much details of the moon and this helped to minimize the lighting also. I have to use manual focus as the camera could not auto focus at night and there was a tree that keep getting the focus

I did some post editing, I use the basic Nikon ViewNX editor and set the sharpness to its maximum value to show the details of the moon. Also I boosted the colors little bit and below is the outcome

Device: Nikon D60, Lens:VR 55-200mm F/4-5.6G, Focal Length: 200mm, VR: OFF,Aperture: F/32, Shutter Speed:1/2s, Exposure Mode: Manual, Exposure Comp.: -1.0EV, ISO Sensitivity: ISO 100