[Interview] Processing Astronomical Images with Judy Schmidt

All the nice space images you see on the web are processed. It's a complex process that takes the raw data from the instruments and turns them into a picture. Judy Schmidt is one of the best in this, so I talked to her about how she does it. Enjoy! 👉 Judy's Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/geckzilla/ 👉 Judy's Twitter: https://twitter.com/spacegeck 👉 Judy's Tutorial: https://youtu.be/8kGPGhbefhI 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 02:44 How did Judy get into space image processing 10:47 Pipeline for astronomical images 14:34 Astronomers and processed images 19:45 What is the image processing pipeline 25:43 Working with raw data 40:22 Scientific discoveries made while processing images 48:49 How to get into image processing 53:32 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/iiXzfeE5EjI 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)