The Sun and the Moon: Edited to add last photo
I wanted to see how my 50 year old Canon FD 800mm f/5.6 s.s.c. would handle photographing both the Sun and the Moon.
1 - Revealing sunspots. (Square cropped)
2 - Personally, I prefer waning gibbous moons for photographing as it can be shot with a minimum of Earthshine. (Square cropped)
3 - Although I do love photographing as extreme thin as I can see. The phase is 0.04 meaning it is 4% illuminated (Full Moon is 100%)
EDIT:
4 - 7/31 Moon with R5 using RF100-500mm lens at 500mm.(51 stacked images)
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Galileo would be proud.
I just have better equipment.
Looks like it gets better after 50! Good shots
Great shots Dean. On the last, what are you gaining by stacking images - noise reduction?
The most common reason for stacking is for a sharper image by removing air current movement, and random noise. There is the possibility of bringing out the mineral colors when stacking lots of images. I probably should have shot a 100 photos for a sharper photo.