The moon's exposure

You can not include the moon in a twilight or night shot and accurately expose for both a landscape or cityscape -- or in this case an individual tree -- and the moon.  If you expose for the land, the moon will completely blow out and become solid white.  If you expose for the moon correctly and reveal detail and texture in the lunar surface, the land-based portion of the image will be much too dark.  The only way to get a picture like this in which both elements are exposed correctly is to shoot them separately and them composite them together.  For the moon, the correct exposure is 1/250 at f/8 with 200 ISO.  You don't need a tripod for this unless you are using a lens longer than 300mm.  In my original shot of this tree, there was a beautiful moon.  However, it turned out solid white as I mentioned simply because I wanted a perfect exposure on the tree.  I then shot the moon and used Photoshop to put the two pictures together.  I captured the tree with a 14mm Canon lens.  The color on the tree comes from an intense sunset afterglow.