Stacking 50 frames of the moon turned out way better than I thought

I've been messing around with my old DSLR and a cheap telescope I got off Craigslist for like 6 months now. Last week I decided to try stacking multiple photos of the moon instead of just taking one shot and calling it good. I used a free program called Autostakkert that some guy on YouTube showed, and honestly I was surprised how much detail popped out. The craters around the terminator line went from blurry blobs to actually looking sharp and defined. I only stacked about 50 frames but the difference was night and day compared to a single frame. Has anyone else messed with stacking and found a max number of frames where it stops helping?

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faith_torres831mo ago

Yeah the jump from single shots to even just 20-30 stacked frames is honestly wild. I did a similar thing with my old Nikon and a $50 scope from a pawn shop and it felt like getting a new lens. My experience with stacking the moon is that after around 80-100 frames you start getting diminishing returns, especially if your tracking is janky like mine. The atmosphere and your mount's stability usually become the bottleneck before the software gives up.