RMS contrast of granulation measured from SST images recorded at different wavelengths and in different seeing conditions characterized by the Fried r₀ parameter. Both r₀ and the granulation contrast have been averaged over 2 s. The blue dots refer to RMS contrasts of images recorded with the AO system and that are compensated only for the diffraction limited point spread function, the red dots to RMS contrasts of images further compensated for aberrations with the multi-frame blind deconvolution method (Löfdahl 2002), and the horizontal dotted lines show the contrasts of 3D MHD simulations. Images were recorded with wide-band (WB) filters on both the “red” (CRISP) and “blue” (CHROMIS) beams. Note that the plot limits for r₀ vary from one plot to another and that data for r₀ values smaller than 0.04 m, shown as vertical dotted lines, are excluded. Two of the panels in the lowermost row show a comparison between RMS contrast obtained from images recorded simultaneously through wideband pre-filters (labeled WB) and the corresponding narrowband (NB) CRISP spectropolarimeter filter system on the “red” beam of the SST (see text). The significantly higher contrast of the NB beam at 853.6 nm is because of the strong influence of the Ca 854.2 nm line within the passband of the WB filter.