Originally Posted by boren 
Photographing the moon isn't all about magnification. The light amount of light you can pull is in very important. I'm not sure trying to get 1/125 is really all that required at the magnification you guys are using. Photographing the moon at full moon also results in the least contrast and texture.
I made several attempts. At 1/125 I couldn't quite keep the shots sharp. But at 1/180 they were.
I had to use F9.5 instead of F11 which was recommended earlier. F11 was underexposing with the DA 50-200.
Here's a couple of scaled down shots from my old k100d with the 18-55mm at between 70x to 160x, click on the photo for the 100%. These haven't been retouched except for scalling them down:
Nice shots. It sure looks like the magnification helped !
These were all shot through a 10" telescope using afocal projecting from the eyepiece into an DA 18-55mm+k100d. The biggest problem I have is getting the focus right because it's very very thin, and that's a lot of equipment hanging off the telescope. I hope liveview with 8x magnification on my new k20d will help. Too bad the sun sets and moon doesn't rise till 11:30pm at the moment.
How much does that telescope cost ?