Compare your moon shots from 3 years ago to now and you might not like what you see

I was going through my hard drive last night and pulled up some lunar photos from 2021. The difference stunned me. Back then I was using a 70mm refractor and a phone adapter, getting craters that looked like soft blobs. Now with a 10 inch dob and a dedicated planetary camera, the detail is insane, but it also showed me how much I was missing before. A lot of that improvement came from learning to stack 500 frames instead of just grabbing one shot. If you have old photos sitting around, pull them up and see your own progress. Has anyone else looked back at their early work and felt like they were basically blind?

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cameron7702d ago

You mean besides that one shot where I accidentally got my thumb in the frame? Yeah, looking back at my early moon pics is rough. I had this cheap 60mm scope and I thought Jupiter looked like a glowing disco ball with four dots around it. The moon was just a bright white mess with no detail at all. Now I stack like 2000 frames and can see the little rilles on the surface. Still can't get a sharp focus though, so maybe I'm just as blind as before.

the_joel2d ago

Nah, that blurry glow adds character. Makes it feel real.