Diffraction-limited CCD imaging with faint reference stars
  By selecting short exposure images taken using a CCD with negligible readout noise we obtained essentially diffraction-limited 810 nm images of faint objects using nearby reference stars brighter than I=16 at a 2.56 m telescope. The FWHM of the isoplanatic patch for the technique is found to be 50 arcseconds, providing ~20% sky coverage around suitable reference stars. 
R. N. Tubbs, J. E. Baldwin, C. D. Mackay and G. C. Cox