Universe Today Podcast [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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