[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!

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• 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

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