Stacking 300 frames of the moon, still can't beat a phone pic
Spent three hours Saturday night shooting the moon through my 8 inch Dob, took about 300 frames and stacked the best 80 in free software. The result was crisp, sure, but my buddy snapped a quick pic with his phone held up to the eyepiece and honestly, his looked almost as good for sharing on social media. I think we overhype the processing side of this hobby for casual viewing. In my experience, the stacked image matters for fine details like crater rims and the terminator line, things you only see when you zoom way in. But if you're just posting to a group thread, the phone shot wins for convenience and it gets the colors more natural. Does anyone else feel like we spend too much time stacking when a single well exposed frame at the right focal length tells the story better? Just curious where other folks land on this.