Windmill knight said:
I'd like to know what sort of technique he used to take these images. I did a quick search and did not find much apart from a mention of him inventing some sort of gizmo added to the telescope that provides extra resolution or something. Playing the devil's advocate for a moment, I am wondering if his gizmo distorts the image of normal space objects and makes them look like that?
Indeed, everything depends on the instrument he is using and what modifications he introduced. Did you find what kind of a gizmo he is using?
The images look like optically distorted and the way the deformation moves through time (with the "twinkling") is just the additional effect of the atmospheric turbulence. You can observe that effect (called "speckles") with any telescope with high magnification on a brillant star.