Yes saw this the other day in the news, a bit about the photohttps://www.timesnownews.com/viral/...ears-of-failed-attempts-article-100843556/amp
Perseverence and patience with his 600mm lens and a good tripod was required. Bet he wasn't calm when the moon was getting closer. https://petapixel.com/2023/06/09/photographer-captures-christ-the-redeemer-holding-the-moon/
The only way to get objects like the moon to appear large in the frame is using very long telephoto lenses from very far away and this guy has done a superb job, at that distance the moon would have had an angular rate of movement that was really quite quick and noticable, so he would have had a timing issue as well to get it perfect. I bet he used a spotting scope and a remote shutter release as well, using a high frame rate might not be guaranteed to capture the moment and could have introduced some vibration although one should bear in mind that this is not a long exposure as the moon is equally as bright as a bright summer's day on earth in a very rocky country (the moon's soil is actually very dark).
Mike I know you deleted a post but it was not a bad question. The sun and the moon both subtend the same arc in terms of degrees in the sky and yeah a 600mm telephoto is great for this, also there are not that many good 600mm lenses that are anywhere near cheap so this chap probably spent a lot of money buying the lens. This image is the whole frame (not cropped) taken on a 1.6x crop camera (APS-C like your 7D) with a 300 mm lens equivalent of a 480mm lens on a full frame camera, so yeah 500 to 600 or longer is about the right focal length.
Yeah it is the foreground that makes it, it was part of aseries I took back in 2005 using that 300mm canon lens on a Canon 20D. This was another from that series with a fairly large astronomical object in it
