The individual raw black and white Hubble images are opened and scaled.

Images are aligned in a graphics editing program.

The camera that took this image is made of two light detectorsm separated by a gap. The gaps are filled with data from another camera.

Each image is assigned a color. Combined, they create a full color image.

Cosmetic defects, including bad pixels, cosmic rays and the detector gap, are cleaned.

The color composite is rotated and cropped.