The technique works pretty well for me, see demonstrated in the sequences of ATV-5 and ISS in attachment. Note thin solar panels of the ATV (about 1 meter thin).
Hmmm... I'm a bit skeptical of manually picking the frames which are 'best' during moments of good seeing. Are you not afraid that wishful thinking takes over and instead you pick only those frames which match what you are expecting?
Since the atmosphere is so turbulent I would think you can only really get good high resolution imaging by averaging lots of frames.
Quote from: ralfvandebergh on 11/02/2014 09:04 pmYour question: I put the best frames manually next to each other and you can see pretty good which of the frames are the best. The detail is sharper and better contrast in the moments of good seeing.Hmmm... I'm a bit skeptical of manually picking the frames which are 'best' during moments of good seeing. Are you not afraid that wishful thinking takes over and instead you pick only those frames which match what you are expecting?
Your question: I put the best frames manually next to each other and you can see pretty good which of the frames are the best. The detail is sharper and better contrast in the moments of good seeing.
It's actually called "Lucky Imaging", and it is a powerful astronomical technique: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_imagingNo, because then you are just adding up all the different types of errors and ending up with a average blurry one. The errors are highly nonlinear, so even if you added then all up, the average would still be blurry. It is better (if you can a lot of images), to just cherry pick the best.