Feature Comparison across Mira Software Platforms

 Feature

   

Pro

Pro UE (Legacy)

Pro x64

64-bit application runs only on a 64-bit version of Windows. This increases software capabilities and performance by exploiting the increased processing speed and expanded 64-bit memory space of a 64-bit operating system.    
32-bit application runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows. Note: A 32-bit application cannot access 64-bit capabilities even when installed on a 64-bit operating system.    
Advanced User Interface components: docking panes, drop button menus, tear-off menus, floating submenus, and custom configuration.  
Direct topic help for windows, dialogs, panes, grids, and toolbars      
High Performance Image Display  
Image Set support (1 to n images per window) for most commands  
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)  
Image Blinking and Animation, 1/10 to 50 frames per second.  
Image Toolbar: shows Magnified view, thumbnail view, image set buttons, and image adjustment buttons.  
Dynamic palette manipulation  
Palette Color-bar Docking Pane (horizontal or vertical)  
Pseudo-color, grayscale, and RGB palettes  
High Performance Transfer Function management  
Transfer Function Docking Pane (horizontal or vertical)  
Boost Transfer Function Enhancement      
Dedicated Image cursor (separate from mouse pointer)  
Zoom 16x to 1/16x in factors of 2, dynamic panning, mouse wheel  
Zoom 16x to 1/1024 (for huge images) in factors of 2, 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  
Configure plot scale, ticks, fonts, labels, colors, borders, and direction  
Configure 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  
Standard Deviation plot averaging mode  
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  
Plot Bar docking pane with coordinate readout, world coordinates, statistics, and other measurement tools.      
Plot data statistics, measure and draw on plot      
Plot line and point measurements      
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  
Live constrained x or y plot zoom and pan  
List measurements in tabular format  
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)  
FITS Header Editor Docking Pane  
Display and edit image information (TIFF, and other image formats)  
Set Author & Copyright information (or equivalent)  
Immediate and batch mode selection of 1 or many images available in the command dialog for most commands. Images can be selected from am Image display window, files, lists, or folder using selection criteria (e.g., naming patterns, keyword values).  
Profile tool to manage parameter presets saved with a name; available in most command dialogs.  
Image Arithmetic: add, subtract, multiply, divide, blend (interpolate)  
Image Arithmetic: remainder, reverse division    
Crop image to image cursor bounds (interactive)  
Trim images using SECTION keyword in image header  
Modify or add keyword values and names to image headers  
Image Value Arithmetic: add, subtract, multiply, divide  
Image Value Arithmetic: divide into, blend (interpolate), remainder  
Image Operations: change sign, exponential, log 10  
Image Operations: log e, absolute value, reciprocal  
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  
Image Combining: Standard deviation, Range, MTM Mean  
Image Combining: Min/max clipped, Sigma clipped, Minimum Value, Maximum Value  
Image Combining: MTM Sigma-weighted Mean, Keyword-weighted Mean, Rank Statistic    
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-Click align at point  
1-Click align on extended object (planet, comet head, etc.)  
Measure magnitudes using aperture photometry  
Unlimited measuring apertures, standard apertures, and sequential images  
Plot light curve for target stars, standards, and check stars.  
Prepare AAVSO report in extended format (single & ensemble)  
Single Object Photometry, Series Photometry, Ensemble Photometry  
Circular photometry apertures  
Elliptical photometry apertures  
Edit photometry data, print, save to file, copy to clipboard, scatter plot  
Astrometric Calibration (plate solution), saved as WCS
Add simple, low precision equatorial coordinate scale  
Interactive Pixel Repair  
Import photometry catalogs using (X, Y) coordinates  
Import photometry catalogs by (RA, Dec) coordinates  
Airmass Calculator (in addition to the photometry tool)  
View live table of pixel values  
Interactively edit pixel values in tabular format  
Pixel Table Docking Pane  
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  
Histogram Plotting  
Plot Bit Histograms for camera and image 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  
Read Noise Calculator for CCD images  
Gain Calculator for CCD images  
Linear coordinate scale (e.g., mm, microns, km, etc.)  
List world coordinate keywords from image header  
Image cursor "Go To" pixel or world coordinate, within an image or between images.  
View HISTORY and 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  
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 automated statistical 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 types)  
Advanced interactive pixel repair    
Express Calibration (apply bias, dark, and flat field corrections to an image set using existing calibration frames)  
Master Bias Frame Creation command  
Master Dark Frame Creation command  
Master Flat Frame Creation command  
Image Calibration pipeline: create and apply bias corrections (bias value, bias frame, reference bias)  
Image Calibration pipeline: apply under-scan and over-scan bias corrections, mean and median over-scan, 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 image animation  
Modify marker and line size, color symbols  
Single cycle, continuous, and rocking plot animation  
Configurable histogram binning strategies  
Image format extensions: ASCII text read and write, formatted or unformatted  
Image format extensions: Raw binary read and write  
Multi-level interactive contour plotting  
Maximum Entropy de-convolution for image enhancement  
Multiple 3-D plots from a 2-D image set  
3-D dynamic blinking, animation, and rotation  
3-D Ribbon, Stepped Ribbon, Column, and Simple pixel facets  
Single cycle, continuous, and rocking plot animation  
Single cycle or continuous animation  
Modify marker and line size, color symbols  
Point source fitting and removal for deleting interfering PSF's.  
Image Normalization to target statistic or target value  
Kwee - van Woerden Solver for time of minimum in a data set.  
Synthetic Image creation using a complete noise model and synthetic PSF's  
Program extension language for creating scripts that interact with Mira or perform independent tasks.   
File Event Scripting      
Source Extraction module for detecting and measuring sources      
Live plot scaling and positioning      
Interactive Polynomial fitting to 1-D plot data (fits order 1 to 10 and provides plot series and region selection, point deletion and weighting).      
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      
 
 

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