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Old 22-06-2014, 11:59 AM
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Originally Posted by philiphart View Post
Thanks for the example Bert.

How much better do you think the drizzled result is than if you had just resampled the un-drizzled data to the same resolution? It looks like you'd get a similar result just through interpolation. Not sure how much more is being achieved by the drizzling?

Phil
This example from DSS explains it well:

http://deepskystacker.free.fr/english/technical.htm

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What and when you need to use the drizzle option
Basically you need only to have a lot of images which must not be perfectly aligned (a few pixels drift is enough).
It makes no sense to drizzle if you have only a few light frames.

Drizzling is particularly good at enhancing the resolution so it is very useful when shooting small objects with a short focal length.

On the right is a example of an almost unprocessed M57 (shot using a 10", F/D 4.72 OTA with a Canon DSLR).

Usually M57 is very small, but by using a 2x drizzle and around 100 light frames the resulting image is twice bigger and the resolution is much better.

Mouse over to see the
Hold the mouse over the 2 links to see the difference.
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