Mira Platform Comparison Matrix

Feature

   

 AL 

 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 (exposure, date, etc)  
File list support: create, merge, save, and open collections of images.  
Image Blinking and Animation, 0 to 50 frames/sec  
Image Toolbar: shows Magnified view, thumbnail view, commonly used buttons, and image adjustment command modes.  
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  
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  
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  
Configure marker and line size, color, symbols  
Scatter plot of  tabular data (all cells or specific cells or rows)  
Dynamic plot coordinate readout  
Plot zoom, expand, and pan  
Dynamic plot coordinate readout  
Plot zoom, expand, and pan  
List measurements in tabular format with common table tools  
Measure distance and angle  
Live coordinate measurement in pixel and world coordinates  
Measure centroid coordinates  
Measure image statistics inside a rectangular region  
Support for FITS World Coordinate System ("WCS") Standard  
Julian Date calculation (photometry: JD, HJD, MJD, MHJD)  
Angular (arcsecond) coordinate scale  
Delete world coordinate scale  
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)  
Image Arithmetic: add, subtract, divide, blend  
Crop image to image cursor bounds (interactive)  
Image Value Arithmetic: add, subtract, multiply, divide  
Image Operations: byte swap, change data type, square root  
Rotate 90, 180, 270, or transpose image  
Rotate a specified angle about center or about a point.  
Mirror flip left/right, or up/down  
High precision image registration (alignment)   

Shift alignment

  
Skew alignment (rotate, shift, scale x, scale y, non-perpendicular axes)  
Extract color plane from RGB image  
Convert to grayscale or RGB image  

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  
Image Combining with offset and scale normalization  
Image Combining: Mean, Median, Sum, Zero-masked mean  
Basic Image Calibration (manually create & apply bias, dark, flat frames)  
Native support for 8, 16, unsigned 16, and 32 bit integer data types  
Native support for 32 and 64 bit real data types  
Native support for 24 and 48 bit RGB data types  
Image format support: FITS, TIFF, BMP, JPEG  
Supports file opening plug-ins for alien formats  
Screen Capture utility   1 1
1-Click align at point   1 1
1-Click align on extended object (planet, comet head, etc.)   1 1
Measure magnitude using aperture photometry (circular apertures)   2
Unlimited measuring apertures, standard apertures, and sequential images   2
Plot light curve for target stars, standards, and check stars.   2
Prepare an AAVSO report in extended format (single & ensemble)   2
Single Object Photometry, Series Photometry, Ensemble Photometry   2
Edit photometry data, print, save to file, copy to clipboard, scatter plot   2
Astrometric Calibration (plate solution), saved as WCS 2
Add simple, low precision equatorial coordinate scale   2
Import photometry catalogs using (X, Y) coordinates     2
Import photometry catalogs by (RA, Dec) coordinates     2
Elliptical or circular photometry apertures     2
Airmass Calculator (in addition to the photometry tool)     2
View table of pixel values (any number of columns and rows)    
Interactively edit pixel values in tabular format    
Image Set Toolbar for quick manipulation of the image collection    
Copy and paste plots between windows    
List plot point data in tabular format    
Plot points at same coordinates in an image set    
Copy and Paste images between windows    
View table of pixel values (any number of columns and rows)    
Interactively edit pixel values in tabular format    
List plot point data in tabular format    
Image Set Toolbar for quick manipulation of the image collection    
Copy and paste plots between windows    
Plot points at same coordinates in an image set    
Histogram Plotting    
Plot bit histograms for camera diagnostics    
Radial Profile Plot with Gaussian + Constant fit    
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 Z-axis scaling    
3-D dynamic palettes and pseudo-color    
3-D Dynamic adjustable viewpoint, illumination, and attributes    
Contour plotting, 1 to 100 levels, auto or user specified    
Interactive Contour Plotting    
Image Combining: Standard deviation, Range, MTM Mean    
Read Noise Calculator for CCD images    
Gain Calculator for CCD images    
Linear coordinate scale (mm. microns, km, etc.)    
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    
View HISTORY or COMMENT keywords    
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: multiply, remainder    
Image Value Arithmetic: divide into, blend, remainder    
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    
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)    
Convert to luminance image using channel weights    
Extract byte plane from image having 8 to 64 bits per pixel    
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)    
Interactive pixel repair    
Advanced interactive pixel repair    
Image Combining: Min/max clipped, Sigma clipped, Minimum Value    
Image Combining: Modified clipped mean, Keyword weighted mean    
Image Combining: Maximum value, Rank statistic    
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    
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    
Single cycle or continuous animation     1
Modify marker and line size, color symbols     1
Single cycle, continuous, and rocking plot animation     1
Configurable histogram binning strategies     1
Image format extensions: ASCII text read and write, formatted or unformatted     1
Image format extensions: Raw binary read and write     1
Multi-level interactive contour plotting     1
Maximum Entropy deconvolution for image enhancement     1
Multiple 3-D plots from a 2-D image set     1
3-D dynamic blinking, animation, and rotation     1
3-D Ribbon, Stepped Ribbon, Column, and Simple pixel facets     1
Single cycle, continuous, and rocking plot animation     1
Single cycle or continuous animation     1
Modify marker and line size, color symbols     1
Script programming extension language     1 1
Detect and measure object properties  ("Source Extraction")     1 1
Live plot scaling and positioning      
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      
Measure point coordinates and intensities      
Measure angle between two lines and the base angle      
Measure distance along line between points      
Measure polygon area, perimeter, and intensity statistics      
Interactively calibrate linear coordinate scale      
Operator Kernels: Prewitt gradient, Linear Feature      
Image Combining: Alpha Clipped Mean, Geometric Mean, Yp Mean      
Image Combining: Rank clipped mean, Min/max clipped range      
Statistical image Normalization to target statistic or target value      

Feature Codes:

1  Requires "Ultimate Edition" of Mira MX or Mira Pro.

2  Astronomy/space science Module for Mira MX (at user request, no charge)

3 Mira MX Ultimate Edition only

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