Taking a picture of the moon with Nikon D3100?

Has anyone out there taken a picture with their NikonD3100, or any DSLR? Any recommendations as to what settings to put the camera on? I have a tripod, so thats covered. What about a telescope? What settings would oen use with the camera attached to it?

What I have:
Nikon D3100
18-55mm lens VR DX
55-200mm lens VR DX
Tripod
Orion 130mm Space Probe Reflector (totally discombobulated, dented and well, discombobulated)

If you could, please attach examples with your answers, thanks.: ]

First if you thought about it you would know that you will NOT be taking long exposures.

The same sun light falls on the moon as the earth, so the exposure will be the same as if you were shooting your friends in the middle of the day. You will have to manually choose the exposure though because all that night sky will fool you cameras light meter. 1/ISO @ f/16 is the rule for shooting under the sun.

You should know just from using those two lenses which one will fill your cameras viewfinder the most

HINT: I use a 500 mm lens with a 2x teleconverter and the moon still does not fill the full frame of the camera

It is VERY possible to get a good moon shot with your camera and lens. The moon won't fill the frame but you can get a good shot that can be cropped pretty well.

Here are some basics to help you:
1. Use a shutter speed of at least 1/350 (this is to combat shake from holding the long lens)
2. Underexpose by 1/2 to 1 stop to compensate for how the camera will probably misread the exposure (like a light bulb in a dark room)
3. Consider shooting a daytime or afternoon moon when there's less contrast between the moon and the sky
4. Also, shooting within the first 30 minutes of moonrise will often result in a larger looking moon to shoot due to the way the light moves through the Earth's atmosphere.
5. Manual focus - few cameras will accurately focus on the moon reliably with autofocus

With that basic telescope you can shoot through the telescope with a smaller lens and fill the frame with very high detail quality. (see the link to a lesson below)

After you have your photo it is ok to do some post processing. If you have an editing program with layers there's a very easy sharpening technique that doesn't result in a lot of extra grain. You can find it at: http://photography.about.com/od/developi…

I have several in depth moon photography lessons online as well:
http://photography.about.com/od/photographybyoccasion/a/moonshots.htm
http://photography.about.com/od/takingpictures/qt/How-To-Photograph-The-Moon-Through-A-Telescope.htm

http://photography.about.com/od/takingpictures/tp/Moon-Photography-Editing-Your-Moon-Photos.htm