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"...this is the most intuitive piece of software I've
ever used. Excellent interface all around. I can tell
you put some thought into the functionality & navigation
of the package."
—Mr. Chris Sauer, software development
manager
"...one click calibration... Its
wonderful!... the procedure-method-source file approach
is brilliant."
—
Dr. David Erickson, Senior Scientist in optics R&D.
"Mira is so popular
around here. ... Having a portable way to review image quality (Mira on a
laptop) is proving to be very valuable ..."
— Dr. Tim Castellano, NASA Ames Research Center.
"What a beautiful
program. The tutorials are great."
— Scott Hesser, Wheaton College
"I have students of
all backgrounds and capabilities using Mira in a variety of instructional
and research settings. I have found that even non-major, Introductory
Astronomy students learn to use Mira very easily and rapidly. By the end
of their first two-hour lab session they have measured a calibrated
magnitude of a supernova, using Mira's user-friendly aperture photometry.
In a second lab session they produce light curves for two RR Lyrae stars
in the globular cluster M3, and determine its distance. I find that Mira's
learning curve is almost flat! It can't get any easier to use than that!
In the research setting I have undergraduates and graduates producing
light curves for binary stars, and searching for the photometric signature
of planets in those systems. They process nights of data that include
several hundred images, using the powerful image set registration and
photometry procedures. They ended up writing the data processing cookbook
themselves!"
— Dr. Daniel Caton,
Appalachian State University
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