• If you're looking frame by frame trying to read a plate, one thing you can do is stack a series of frames up to get a better signal-to-noise ratio. Basically, deform/align up the characters of the plates and adjust the transparency of each image in the stack so you can see them all. Weight the least-blurry images higher than blurry ones if you want to get fancy.

    This tutorial is for astronomy but the principle is the same:

    https://astrobackyard.com/tutorials/stack-exposures/

    Probably also possible to do some deconvolution unblurring stuff

  • You clever cookie!

    Fuck knows how I actually do that in the software I have but something to remember if I REALLY want a plate.

  • Photoshop/free alternative is good enough for shift-and-add stacking. Bit tedious though.

    I'm far from an expert on this, I know there's a few astrophotography people on here who might be able to offer more insight if there's a serious incident

  • ImageJ/FIJI may have some stacking tools too

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