On Thursday 03 May 2007 16:20, Allen Thomson wrote: > > Basically, the idea of lucky imaging is that the atmospheric > distortions that limit resolution will, every now and then, "flatten > out" in front of a telescope for several milliseconds and give a > diffraction-limited glimpse of the target. So you take a video of the > object, brew a big pot of coffee, and step through the video frame by > frame and pick out the best images. There are useful refinements, but > that's the idea. Can't you get a computer to do that ? -- "If it's measured in mm, it's too small." [John Mahony, in the SCT user's mailing list] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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