Comment by dylan604

From within this own topic, there are clues:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45951713

Sure, all of the elements were captured, but not in a single image released as the final image. If you look at a search for “solar transit”, none of them have as much detail in the sun as this one. That’s evidence of comping the sky diver onto his mosaic. It’s similar to when people come in a full moon over itself when captured in a wide angle image. Yes, the moon was there and it is just updated with something with more detail and better exposure, but it’s not a single image possible to capture without comping. Maybe it’s not as obvious to someone less familiar with astrophotography, but that just makes the sin that much worse.

At the end of the day, it’s a great artistic shot, but it nothing more than the same level of effort to make a modern Marvel movie