Adaptive optics and cheap don’t usually go together and I don’t know of any successful amateur attempts. In any case, Hadley’s appeal is that it’s cheap and 3d printed, it’s not a precision instrument that is limited by the atmosphere.
That said, assuming you’re doing planetary photography, you can do speckle imaging by using an astronomy camera to take lots of short-exposure frames and running them through software such as AutoStakkert!4
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Adaptive optics and cheap don’t usually go together and I don’t know of any successful amateur attempts. In any case, Hadley’s appeal is that it’s cheap and 3d printed, it’s not a precision instrument that is limited by the atmosphere.
That said, assuming you’re doing planetary photography, you can do speckle imaging by using an astronomy camera to take lots of short-exposure frames and running them through software such as AutoStakkert!4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speckle_imaging