Mira AP Software

Doing professional grade science has never been easier!

Mira doing series photometry with elliptical apertures.

Feature Comparison

Benefits

Academic & Gov't Price List

Public Price List

Also see our other Software:

Mira Pro (more features)

Mira AL (intro/student level)

Samples

Photometry Example

Image Registration

Attention Educators:

Check out Mira AL — available in Site Licenses for outfitting large teaching labs.

Applications

• Mira AP makes it easy to make research quality photometric measurements of any number of stars with any number of standards on any number of images. Doing ensemble photometry, plotting light curves, and reporting results are a snap!
• Do variable star research, exosolar planet search, milli-mag level photometry, supernova patrol, minor planet rotation studies, data mining, and other research topics.
• Use Mira AP for teaching college level astronomy labs involving image calibration and data reduction.
• Mira AP provides professional level "quick look" data screening and many general research applications.
• Excellent for Amateur / Professional collaboration in astronomy.

Around the world, Mira Pro, AP, and AL are used by more academic astronomers and students than all other commercial software packages combined.

Mira AP_™ is also known as "Mira Pro Lite", showing its heritage as a spin off our our flagship astronomy software, Mira Pro. Mira AP provides world-class software tools for processing, analyzing, and viewing images from CCD cameras and digitized photos. Educators, university students, and serious amateur astronomers alike will find Mira AP the ideal solution for getting the best results with a minimum of effort. And like other members of the Mira family, Mira AP is no performance slouch! Using today's Pentium IV and Athlon class PC's, you can dynamically stretch the palette or fluidly pan around large images, say 8k x 8k, with 64 bit real pixels, even when zoomed 16x.

Internally, Mira AP relies on many of the same cutting-edge mathematical techniques used in our professional level Mira Pro. Mira AP gives you research quality results in a fraction of the time you would spend fumbling with other software.

In 1990, we made astronomical image processing on the PC a reality. Since then, providing high-end solutions for cutting-edge applications in astronomy and other fields has taught us many things. Since then, user feedback has taught us even more. Mira Version 7 shows our commitment to more than just a lot of great features---it shows our attention to "human engineering". This translates as "Easy to understand and use".

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