How can he obtain these images "under poor seeing" ?

Question

Scroll down until you meet Damian Peach. His images are incredibly good, even in the worst seeing conditions. Which processing filter does he use, after aligning and stacking?
http://alpo-j.asahikawa-med.ac.jp/kk07/m071106z.htm

Thank you all, I know thousands of people email Damian asking which techniques he prefers, so I entered yahoo answer to learn how they call something beyond the simplest and overknown stacking, unsharp masking and "waveletting" sets of several frames. Just to give a name to a method, as I have no books or magazines on detailed ("truly detailed")planetary processing (please, don't say I could download something useful from emule)

Thank you campbel, I agree you in a certain way. As a matter of facts, when I had excellent AVI files to process I wasn't able to obtain the same results of the authors'; and when I caught very good AVIs through my own telescope, none told me "how really good they were".

Answer 1

I always question it when some guy shows a really sharp image and complains of poor seeing. It must not be as poor as he is saying or the images wouldn't be so good. Seeing is a little subjective anyway. Maybe it is poor compared to what he is sued to but maybe it is better than what I am used to.

Answer 2

With planets, the most common method for capture is taking a video, and then using a program to grade and stack many (hundreds usually) frames. This method can produce very sharp images even when taken in poor seeing.

Answer 3

Well, first of all, Damian is a genius at what he does. But he's also very generous about sharing his techniques. Take a look at his web site, and the Yahoo Marsobservers group, in which he's a regular participant.

Answer 4

photoshop

no, really, these are good shots. my guess is 'poor seeing' means something different to you than to him.

way to go, Damian!