Mira Platform Comparison Matrix
  • Features available with extension modules are denoted by 1234567  (see at bottom).
  • Mira MX Ultimate Edition includes Modules 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.
  • Mira Pro Ultimate Edition includes Modules 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7.

Feature

   

 AL 

 AP 

 Pro 

 MX 
High Performance Image Display  
Image Sets (1 to n images per window)  
Image set management (add, delete, re-order)  
Open image sets (groups of image files)  
Save image sets (save all, save to folder, save with suffix)  
Sort image set by properties (FWHM, Exposure, date, etc)  
Image Set Toolbar      
File list support: create, merge, save, and open collections of images.  
Image Blinking and Animation, 0 to 100 frames/sec  
Image Toolbar: shows Magnified view, thumbnail view, commonly used buttons, and image adjustment command modes.  
Single cycle or continuous animation       1
Dynamic palette manipulation  
Pseudo-color, grayscale, and RGB palettes  
High Performance Transfer Function management    
Image cursor (separate from mouse pointer)    
Zoom 1/16 to 16x, dynamic panning, mouse wheel    
Copy and Paste images between windows      
View table of pixel values (any number of columns and rows)      
Interactively edit pixel values in tabular format      
Print images, grayscale or color  
Print image to scale, size, or placement on page  
Print overlay grid, keyword text, and comments  
Copy image to Windows clipboard  
1-D plotting of image data    
Configurable plot scale, ticks, fonts, labels, colors, borders, and direction  
Configurable plot window colors and size  
WYSIWYG Printing of plots with preview  
Plot printing page placement, size, and scale  
Plot Series support  
Plot series blinking and animation  
Single cycle, continuous, and rocking plot animation       1
Dynamic plot coordinate readout  
Plot zoom, expand, and pan  
Dynamic plot scaling and positioning        
Plot Single column and row intensity profile  
Plot Multiple column and row intensity profiles  
Plot Averaged column and row intensity profile  
Mean, Median, and Sum plot averaging modes  
Plot intensity profile along a drawn line  
Over-plot lines parallel to a drawn line  
Plot 1-D data in world coordinates or pixel coordinates  
Copy and paste plots between windows      
Configure marker and line size, color, symbols    
Modify marker and line size, color symbols       1
List plot point data in tabular format      
Plot points at same coordinates in an image set      
Scatter plot of  tabular data (all cells or specific cells or rows)  
Histogram Plotting    
Configurable histogram binning strategies        1
Plot bit histograms for camera diagnostics      
Radial Profile Plot with Gaussian + Constant fit    
Interactive Polynomial fitting to 1-D plot data        
Fit 1 to 10-th order with sigma rejection, forced coefficients        
Fit selected regions, manually delete or weight points.        
Fit all points or only selected plot series        
3-D Plotting      
3-D Surface, Illuminated, Wireframe, and Z-shaded plots      
3-D dynamic tilt and rotation (manual or automated)      
3-D Quad and triangular pixel facets      
3-D Ribbon, Stepped Ribbon, Column, and Simple pixel facets       1
3-D Z-axis scaling      
3-D dynamic palettes and pseudo-color      
Multiple 3-D plots from a 2-D image set       1
3-D dynamic blinking, animation, and rotation       1
3-D Dynamic adjustable viewpoint, illumination, and attributes      
Contour plotting, 1 to 100 levels, auto or user specified      
Interactive Contour Plotting      
Multi-level interactive contour plotting        1
Measure positions in pixel and world coordinate units  
List measurements in tabular format with common table tools  
Measure distance and angle in pixel and world coordinates  
Measure FWHM in pixel and world coordinates  
Measure centroid positions in world and pixel coordinates  
Measure image statistics inside a rectangular region  
Measure point coordinates and intensities        
Measure angle between two lines and base angle        
Measure distances along line between points        
Measure polygon area, perimeter, and intensity statistics        
Measure magnitude using aperture photometry (circular apertures)   6
Elliptical apertures with adjustable ellipticity and orientation     6
Unlimited star apertures, standard apertures, and sequential images   6
Plot light curve for target stars, standards, and check stars.   6
Prepare an AAVSO report in extended format (single & ensemble)   6
Single Object Photometry, Series Photometry, Ensemble Photometry   6
Import photometry catalogs using (X, Y) coordinates     6
Import photometry catalogs by (RA, Dec) coordinates       6
Edit photometry data, print, save to file, copy to clipboard, scatter plot   6
Support for FITS World Coordinate System ("WCS") Standard  
Airmass Calculator (in addition to the photometry tool)       6
Julian Date calculation (photometry: JD, HJD, MJD, MHJD)  
Read Noise Calculator for CCD images      
Gain Calculator for CCD images      
Add linear coordinate scale (mm. microns, km, etc.)      
Interactively calibrate linear coordinate scale        
Add arcsecond coordinate scale  
Astrometric Calibration (plate solution), saved as WCS 6
Add simple, low precision equatorial coordinate scale   6
Delete world coordinate scale  
List world coordinate keywords from image header      
Image cursor go-to pixel or go-to world coordinate       
Send image cursor and displayed center to world coordinate      
Draw text labels and markers on images  
Set label options (marker shapes, size, colors, font, placement)  
Display and edit FITS header (FITS format images)  
Display and edit image information (TIFF, and other image formats)  
Set Author & Copyright information (or equivalent)  
View HISTORY or COMMENT keywords      
Crop image to image cursor bounds (interactive)  
Crop or trim image to specified (column, row) bounds      
Set pixel values directly in the image      
Set region value with optional Gaussian random noise      
Image Arithmetic: add, subtract, divide, blend  
Image Arithmetic: multiply, remainder      
Image Value Arithmetic: add, subtract, multiply, divide  
Image Value Arithmetic: divide into, blend, remainder      
Image Operations: byte swap, change data type, square root  
Image Operations: change sign, exponential, log 10    
Image Operations: log e, absolute value, reciprocal      
Flatten background with 1x1 up to 10x10 polynomial surface    
Subtract or divide polynomial surface or create image of  the surface    
Rotate 90, 180, 270, or transpose image  
Rotate a specified angle about center or about a point.  
Mirror flip left/right, or up/down  
Scale image by a specified factor    
Scale image differently in x and y directions    
Shift image (whole pixel or fractional pixel amounts    
Expand image to larger size    
Imbed image into another image    
Affine transformation (scale, rotate, and shift)    
High precision image registration (alignment)   

Shift alignment

  
Skew alignment (rotate, shift, scale x, scale y, non-perpendicular axes)  
1-Click align at point     7 7
1-Click align on extended object (planet, comet head, etc.)     7 7
Extract byte plane from image having 8 to 64 bits per pixel    
Extract color plane from RGB image  
Convert to grayscale or RGB image  
Convert to luminance image using channel weights    

Merge channel images to make RGB image

  
Merge channel images to make LRGB image  
De-speckle to remove color channel point noise  
Basic filters: Sharpen, De-speckle, Custom 3x3 kernel  
Custom filter kernel, m x n pixels      
Unsharp masking filter    
Sharpening Filters: Unsharp Mask, High Pass (m x n pixels)    
Smoothing Filters: Rectangle, Elliptical, Gaussian, Block Average    
Smoothing Filters: Binomial (m x n pixels)      
Noise Reduction: Median, Boxcar (all m x n pixels)      
Noise Reduction: Clip High, Clip Low    
Image Set cleaning for exceptional automated removal of cosmic rays      
Noise Reduction: Cosmic Ray filter (various options)      
Rank Filters: Median, Minimum Value    
Rank Filters: Maximum value, Percentile Rank      
Operator Kernels: Rotational Gradient, DDP    
Operator Kernels: Compass Gradient, Laplacian (various)      
Operator Kernels: Prewitt gradient, Linear Feature        
Maximum Entropy deconvolution for image enhancement     3 3
Interactive pixel repair    
Advanced interactive pixel repair      
Image Combining with offset and scale normalization  
Image Combining: Mean, Median, Sum, Zero-masked mean  
Image Combining: Min/max clipped, Sigma clipped, Minimum Value    
Image Combining: Modified clipped mean, Keyword weighted mean      
Image Combining: Maximum value, Rank statistic      
Image Combining: Standard deviation, Range, MTM Mean      
Image Combining: Alpha Clipped Mean, Geometric Mean, Yp Mean        
Image Combining: Rank clipped mean, Min/max clipped range        
Image Normalization        
Basic Image Calibration (manually create & apply bias, dark, flat frames)  
Express Calibration (apply bias, dark, and flat field corrections to an image set using existing calibration frames)    
Image Calibration pipeline: create and apply bias corrections (bias value, bias frame, reference bias)    
Image Calibration pipeline: apply underscan and overscan bias corrections, mean and median overscan, polynomial fitting, or erase line removal.      
Image Calibration pipeline: create and apply dark corrections (dark frame, scale by dark exposure time, optimize by statistics), create or apply a library of master dark frames by exposure time or temperature.    
Image Calibration pipeline: create and apply flat field corrections, create or apply a library of master flats according to filter.      
Image Calibration pipeline: cosmic ray filtering      
Image Calibration pipeline: Trim finished images, convert data type    
Cosmetic repair: blemish masks (columns, rows, regions)    
Cosmetic repair: pixel mask correction (isolated points)    
Cosmetic repair: create and edit pixel masks and blemish masks    
Cosmetic Repair: auto-create pixel masks    
Data Type support: Mira opens, saves, displays, measures, processes images in 8, 16, 32 bit integer, 32 and 64 bit real, and 24 bit color format.  
Image format support: FITS, TIFF, BMP, JPEG  
Image format extensions: ASCII text read and write, formatted or unformatted       2
Image format extensions: Raw binary read and write       2
Supports file opening plug-ins for alien formats  
Supports image processing plug-ins for measurements and processing.    
Calculate Image Scale from header data      
Calculate CCD camera gain from images      
Calculate CCD readout noise from images      
Pro Script programming extension language       47 47
Detect and measure object properties  ("Source Extraction")       5 7
Screen Capture utility     7 7

Module Codes:

1  Pro Graphics II module

2  Import/Export module

3  MaxEnt module

4  Pro Script module

5  MExtract module

6  Astronomy Module for Mira MX (at user request, no charge)

7  Mira MX Ultimate Edition and Mira Pro Ultimate Edition

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