Popularity of Technique
Both amateur and professional astronomers have begun to use this technique. Modern webcams and camcorders have the ability to capture rapid short exposures with sufficient sensitivity for astrophotography, and these devices are used with a telescope and the shift-and-add method from speckle imaging (also known as image stacking) to achieve previously unattainable resolution. If some of the images are discarded, then this type of video astronomy is called lucky imaging.
Many methods exist for image selection, including the Strehl-selection method first suggested by John E. Baldwin from the Cambridge group and the image contrast selection used in the Selective Image Reconstruction method of Ron Dantowitz. The recent development of EMCCDs has allowed the first high quality lucky imaging of faint objects.
Due to the large amounts of data that must be processed in order to increase systematic gain, Lucky imaging is amenable to distributed computing methods. Semi-automated image processing methods like Galaxy Zoo implement can be extended and fully automated for distributed computing systems like BOINC.
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