judy schmidt: this is only this picture. only had two >> in modesto, california i sat down with someone who helps make the visual magic happen. judy schmidt describes herself as a celestial artist. miles o'brien: how many, how many images would you say you have processed over the years? judy schmidt: oh, god. give or take hundreds. hundreds. >> she's a stay-at-home mom with a background in graphic design. 15 over the years, she's made a color-correcting astronomy images in her home office - posting her work on flickr and twitter. miles o'brien: well, you're trying to let us see something we can't see, right? that's hard. judy schmidt: yes, but there's a natural order of wavelengths. so even though. it's infrared. i'm still using the same, i guess, formula to put together an image where the shortest wavelengths will be represented by blue, and then the medium wavelengths get represented by green, and then the longest been in the red. >> among her most celebrated work:hubble images of the comet shoemaker-levy 9 impacting jupit

judy schmidt describes herself as a celestial artist. >> how many images would you say you have processeds? >> hundreds. >> she is a stay-at-home mom with a background in graphic design. over the years she has made a hobby out of processing and color correcting astronomy images in her home office. posting her work on flickr and twitter. you're trying to let us see something we cannot see, right? that's hard. >> yes, but there is a natural order of wavelengths. so even though it is infrared, i'm still using the same formula to put together an image where the shortest wavelengths will be represented by blue, and then the medium wavelengths get represented by green, and then the longest in the red. >> among her most celebrated work, hubble images of the comet shoemaker-levy 9 impacting jupiter in 1994. so when webb scientists pulled down fresh images of jupiter, heidi hammel gave schimdt a crack at those too. >> i just thought it was very fun and something to do with my life and if i can make some astronomers day by showing interest in their work and making a pretty image out of it, then i t