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1.
Product Comparison Matrix
A tabular comparison between features in Mira AL, AP,
Pro, and MX, including the Pro Graphics II, Pro Import, and MaxEnt
modules.
2.
Image Display
Image display is the core of any image
processing software. With Mira, display of images is only one of many
ways of understanding your data. There are also 1-D and 3-D
visualization capabilities,
contour plots,
and other tools...
3.
Quantitative Image
Calibration
It is a normal run of data collection: You've
acquired 600 images with your CCD camera. But there's something ominous
yet to be done before your data are really useful: quantitative image
calibration. This procedure involves correction of instrumental
signatures and effects like bias, dark, and flat field corrections, ...
4.
MExtract Module (Tutorial from the Mira Pro User's Guide)
Source Extraction involves the automated detection of objects in an image and
the subsequent extraction of their brightness, position, and shape information
into a data table. The final collection of source data contains coordinates,
luminance, ellipticity and many other properties. The widely ranging
applications for source extraction include generating object lists for
multi-object photometry, mapping optical aberrations and CCD artifacts, counting
galaxies, and discovering variable stars by comparing the luminance of the same
source through a stack of images...
5. FWHM Measurements
The Full Width at Half Maximum, or "FWHM", is an
important tool for quantifying image sharpness. For example, the FWHM is
used to determine the size of measuring apertures in the aperture
photometry package. FWHM is also important for characterizing the size
of the point spread function as a measure of focus, atmospheric
turbulence, or optical performance...
6.
Contour
Plotting
Learn about Mira's fast, accurate, and versatile contour plotting tools.
7.
Pro Script Module
Mira Pro Script is a powerful image processing
language designed specifically for working with images and data in
science and engineering applications.
8.
MaxEnt
Module
Maximum Entropy Deconvolution, or "MaxEnt", is a sophisticated
image reconstruction method used to increase spatial resolution in an
image. Maximum Entropy uses information stored in the Signal-to-Noise
Ratio (S/N) to...
9.
Source Extraction Definitions (From the Mira Pro User's Guide)
The
MExtract Module
detects sources in an image and measures their properties. The measured
properties are described below. ...
10.
Image Registration
(Overview)
Image Registration is the process of aligning images to make
features align accurately. Images are registered for the
purpose of combining or comparing them, merging RGB channels,
or to increase the Signal to Noise ratio. Registration is
also an essential step when searching images for transient
features and new objects.
Mira gives true sub-pixel registration that is unmatched
in the quality of the result and ease of use.
Truly exceptional results are remarkably simple to obtain...
11.
Image
Registration (Tutorial from the User's Guide)
Image Registration is the process of aligning
images to make features align accurately. Images are registered for the
purpose of combining or comparing them, merging RGB channels, or to
increase...
12.
1-D Data Fitting Package
The 1d-Fit Package is a powerful regression analysis tool provided with Mira MX.
For the investigator working with image data, this feature solves the
frequent need for quantification such as the estimator value over
multiple data sets, the mean error of a zero point, ...
13.
3D Graphics
in Mira Pro, MX, and the Pro Graphics II Module
This page describes Mira's 3-D capabilities beyond those in Mira
Pro. These features are standard in Mira MX. These capabilities may
also be added to Mira Pro by obtaining the optional Pro Graphics II
Module...
14.
Comparing Mira Pro and Pro Graphics II Module / Mira MX
This
Brief compares the features of the Pro Graphics II Module with those in
Mira MX and the standard Mira Pro platform...
15.
3-D Visualization of Model Data
As a scientific image processing application,
Mira provides some of the very best tools available for visualizing
image data. Here, we show how Mira’s outstanding 3-D visualization tools
can...
16.
3-D
Visualization of Image Data
With Mira Pro and Mira MX, you get
an integrated 3-D viewer that renders 2-D images in 3-D. This
provides additional opportunities for inspecting and analyzing both
images and model data. This Brief illustrates some of the variations
possible for visualizing image data...
17.
1-D Data
Visualization in Mira
Mira users demand the kind of plots that
scientists and engineers make, not the kind made by business graphics
software. Therefore, Mira's 1-D plotting architecture was designed to
efficiently and effectively work with data sets consisting of many
points, many series...
18.
Aperture
Photometry
Aperture photometry is used for measuring the
brightness of astronomical objects.
This tutorial steps you through a scientific measurement using the Aperture
Photometry package to do photometry of multiple images in an "image set"...
19.
The Mira
Plug-in Interface
A plug-in is a program extension module that is not
part of the application, but which can be accessed by
the application to extend its functionality.
Plug-ins allow your copy of Mira to do things it
didn't do "out of the box"...
20. Class and
Function Reference for the Mira Pro Script Module
Below are listed the classes and global functions
available from the Pro Script Module...
21. Cleaning Cosmic Rays from Image Sets using Mira Pro & MX
Mira Pro and Mira MX provide an exceptional tool for
removing transient artifacts such as cosmic rays and other radiation
events as well as sporadic hot pixels. ...
22.
Preparing a Report for the AAVSO
If you are a member of the American Association of
Variable Star Observers ("AAVSO"), then Mira provides a handy tool
that simplifies submitting variable star measurements as part of the
Aperture Photometry package. This tool formats ...
23.
Plotting Light Curves
When an image set is measured using the
Aperture Photometry package, Mira can automatically
generate a light curve showing the variation in magnitude versus
time for selected target objects, standard stars, and check stars.
This feature is provided in all Mira platforms. ...
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