[Interview] Processing Astronomical Images with Judy Schmidt

October 27th, 2022
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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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