Mira Pro provides research caliber image calibration, data reduction, visualization, and measurement tools in a highly integrated, easy to use environment.
Application areas: astronomy, space sciences, education.
Mira Pro comparing simultaneous photometry with different parameters.
Introducing Mira Pro
Superior software is no accident. It requires understanding the problems and solutions and assembling a team of specialists and world-class developers to implement those solutions. At Mirametrics, that's exactly who we are. Mira Pro™ provides the professional researcher or educator the tools to do it easier, faster, and better. Mira Pro includes an extensive collection of richly integrated, easy to use tools for image visualization, precision measurement, and data reduction. There is simply no other commercial application available that approaches Mira Pro for doing professional grade astronomy.
Especially if you have been slogging through image calibration using typical "CCD PROC" type tasks in other software packages, you will find Mira Pro a refreshing solution to an old problem. Image Calibration in Mira Pro is easier to configure, offers more options, and works faster than in other software. And what about 1-click calibration of a folder full of raw 4k x 4k images? No problem!
In 1988, we made a reality of astronomical image processing on the PC which was otherwise limited to expensive UNIX workstations. Since then, providing cutting edge solutions for astronomy and other disciplines has taught us many things. 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". Using Mira Pro, you will get the superior quality results you expect and in a fraction of the time spent learning and using other software.
Discover how Mira Pro Ultimate Edition can bring you results like you've never seen before.
Note: Mira Pro Ultimate Edition adds a large number of extended features including scripting capability.
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Mira Pro Ultimate Edition is required for use on Vista x64 and Windows 7 (both 32- and 64- bit editions).
Applications
- Mira Pro 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, importing objects from target lists, and reporting results are a snap!
- Use Mira Pro as a powerful, general-use tool for astronomical research, including areas like variable star research, exosolar planet search, milli-mag level photometry, supernova patrol, minor planet detection and rotation, and data mining.
- Provides powerful tools for astronomical data reduction and visualization.
- Mira Pro is also great for analyzing 2-D and 3-D numerical models and simulations.
- Excellent for synoptic studies involving measurement or analysis of photometry, coordinates, distances, angles, brightness, and other parameters.
Key Features
- Mira's outstanding GUI puts advanced tools where you expect them, freeing you to think about science, not using software.
- Utilize Mira’s superior visualization and analysis tools to get more from image data and numerical simulations.
- Realize complex data reduction strategies using simplified, intuitive commands and procedures.
- Measure science-grade coordinates, distance, angles, FWHM, statistics, magnitudes, and more, in image units and FITS World Coordinates.
- Work with FITS and other standard image formats using 8 to 64 bit data and 24 bit color.
- Mira Pro UE runs on the 64-bit Vista operating system.
Hot Topics
Note to IRAF users: Why Mira ?
Quantitative image calibration
Custom processing using scripts (Mira Pro UE)
Automated extraction of sources & properties (Mira Pro UE)
- Feature Comparison
- Feature List
- Mira vs. IRAF
- Scripting
- MExtract
- Academic Price List
- Government Price List
- Public Price List
- Trial Version
Related Software
- Mira Pro Ultimate Edition (adds scripting and much more)
- Mira AL (intro/student level)
- College Teachers: See our "Educator
Bundles"
which combine a Mira AL Site License with a copy of Mira Pro.
Samples
Recent Research
- Icarus 187 (2007) 285-295.
Requirements
- Windows operating system or equivalent: Windows Vista (32-bit only), XP, Server 2003, or 100% compatible Windows environment on Linux or Mac. For Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit) or 64-bit Vista, Mira Pro Ultimate Edition is required.
- Hard Drive Space: 100 MB.
- Minimum Platform: Windows® XP; Intel Pentium® III or compatible CPU @ 1 GHz; 1GB RAM; 16 bit color.