Designed for critical astronomical applications, Mira® Pro Ultimate Edition™ includes research-level image calibration, data reduction, visualization, and measurement tools, plus a powerful programming extension language for scripting, algorithm development, simulation, and other computational needs.
Application areas: Astronomy and space science research, education.
Mira Pro UE showing images, plots, 3-D. scripting, measurements, and
analyses
In 1988, Mira™ introduced the world of astronomical image processing to PC users at a time when such work was limited to mainframes and expensive UNIX or DEC workstations. Mira Pro Ultimate Edition version 7 continues this tradition as the world's most capable astronomical image processing application available for Microsoft Windows compatible platforms, providing the professional researcher, educator, or amateur scientist the tools to do professional level work with a blazingly fast, easy to use program. Cutting edge processing and analysis algorithms assure state of the art results for applications ranging from quick-look synoptic work to publishable science — in the lab, office, observatory, or on a student workstation.
Mira Pro Ultimate Edition includes an extensive collection of richly integrated, easy to use tools for image visualization, precision measurement, and data reduction from the user interface. And to take your work to the next level, Mira Pro Ultimate Edition includes our Pro Script™ programming extension language based on the easy to use, fast, and powerful Lua® programming language. Pro Script allows you to create scripts that work with images and other data for scripting repetitive and custom tasks, developing and testing algorithms, creating simulations, and doing countless other programming chores. Also included are hundreds of fast, powerful functions that are easily implemented in your scripts.
One year of maintenance is included; after one year, discounted annual maintenance is available to provide tech support and keep your software current.
Applications
- Mira Pro UE 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 UE as a powerful, general-use tool for astronomical research, including areas such as variable star research, exoplanet search, millimag level photometry, supernova patrol, minor planet detection & rotation studies, 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.
- Extensive and powerful, yet easy to use, scripting language for processing images and other data, including our powerful File Event Scripting capability.
- 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.
Latest Feature Additions
Several of the latest features are highlighted below. These are described in the on-line Mira Pro UE User's Guide.
- File Event Scripting: Execute Mira scripts for processing, analyzing, or measuring data when triggered by a file event. Running as a parallel task (i.e., in a separate thread), you can continue working with Mira while files are being processed. This exciting new feature gives virtually boundless versatility in activities like processing images in real time, monitoring transparency or seeing, plotting light curves in real time, etc.
- Kwee - van Woerden Solver: Computes time of minimum and uncertainty for variable star data using the Kwee - van Woerden algorithm.
- Create Synthetic Image command: Create realistic artificial images using all sources of noise and artificial stars. Stars are distributed randomly in position and according to a stellar luminosity function. Useful for teaching and learning about noise effects and for testing algorithms, especially during scripted algorithm development.
Hot Topics
Quantitative Image Calibration
Automated extraction of sources & properties
Not what you need? See:
- Mira Pro (fewer tools, no script language)
- Mira MX UE (advanced tools, script language)
- Mira AP (lighter features)
- Mira AL (for students
and casual use)
- Educator
Bundles: Mira AL Site License with Mira Pro, ideal for teaching and
curriculum development!
More Information
- Feature Comparison
- Feature List
- Mira vs. IRAF
- Scripting
- MExtract
- Academic Price List
- Government Price List
- Public Price List
- Trial Version
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Mira Pro User's Guide
Requirements
- Windows operating system or equivalent: Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or a 100% compatible Windows environment on Linux or Mac.
- Hard Drive Space: 100 MB.
- Minimum Platform: Windows® XP SP3, 2GB memory.