Getting real footage from some location is kind of trivial. If you try to edit a person into a scene, you have to do a lot of work to carefully fix up the ligh

Getting real footage from some location is kind of trivial. If you try to edit a person into a scene, you have to do a lot of work to carefully fix up the lighting and shadows, which is difficult to do perfectly. That's not the case with a tiny distant object against a dark sky. There aren't many editing artifacts to look for.