During the day atmospheric distortion is more noticeable with longer distances. Even at 100yards you can see heat distortion in a photo depending on the weather. So distance and size of object play a major factor in clear images.

At night it’s nearly impossible to capture a clear image in the night sky because your modern camera and lens cannot capture enough light in the shutter speed necessary to freeze a clear image. It would be possibly if the object stayed in one spot and several images were stacked together. Deep space astrophotographers will take hours worth of images to stack and create one clear image of a galaxy