Mira AL x64
Contents
Getting Started
Initializing Toolbars and Docking Panes
User Interface Overview
Critical Concepts
Setting Application Properties
Selecting Source Images
Changing the GUI Theme
Docking Panes
Tear-off Menus
Image Types
Image Tool Keystroke Commands
Status Bar
Main Message Pane
Main Context Menu
Screen Capture
Mira's Special Folders
Tip of the Day
Tech Support
About this Document
Glossary of Terms
Tutorials
Overview
Displaying an Image
Displaying an Image Set
Creating Plots from Images
Introduction to Image Registration
Making a Scatter Plot of Measurements
Introduction to Aperture Photometry
Doing Time Series Photometry
Introduction to Astrometric Calibration
Examples
File Lists
Creating File Lists
Opening Files from File Lists
Images
Image Rotation
Adding Labels to an Image
Editing the FITS Header
Image Registration
Plots
Plot Windows
Plotting Examples
Plotting an Averaged Line
Row Plots
Adding Series to a Line Profile Plot
Changing Plot Series Attributes
Overplotting a Line Profile
Plotting in World Coordinates
Comparison of Histogram Preferences
Measurements
Distance and Angle
Selecting Cells in a Grid Control
Tutorial: Making a Scatter Plot of Measurements
Fixing Header Problems in Photometric Data
Importing a Photometry Catalog
User Interface
Accelerator Keys
Docking Panes
Profile Control
Status Bar
Changing the GUI theme
Docking Panes
Overview
Docking Panes Toolbar
Image Bar
Animation Bar
Measurement Panes
Initializing Toolbars and Docking Panes
Grid Controls
Overview
Grid Command Menu
Measurement Panes
Report Windows
Grid Properties
Overview
Grid Appearance Properties
Grid Printing Properties
Menus
Tear-off menus
Main Context Menu
Default Menu Bar
Plot Menu Bar
Align Images Menu
Pictures of Menus
Creating new text documents
Default File Menu
Calibration Menu
Diagnostics menu
Edit Menu
File Menu
File | Save Image Set Menu
Measure Menu
Process | Cosmetics Menu
Process | Math Menu
Process | Math | Change Data Type Menu
Process | RGB Images
Context Menus
Image Context Menu
Image Context Menu for an image set
Plot Context Menu
Grid Command Menu
Toolbars
Working with Toolbars
Image Tool Keystroke Commands
Command Toolbars
Cursor Tools Toolbar
Image Plot Toolbar
Docking Panes Toolbar
Image Set Toolbar
Image Tools Toolbar
Image Bar
Calibration Tools Toolbar
Interactive Repair Toolbar
Main Toolbar
Measurements Toolbar
Dialog Styles
GUI Theme
Dialog Buttons
Plug-ins
File Opening Plug-ins
Image Processing Plug-ins
Mira Windows
Image
Overview
Animation Pane
Image Bar
Image Tool Keystroke Commands
Adjusting the Image Cursor
Image Set Toolbar
Command Modes
Cursor Command Modes
Roam Mode
Cursor Mode
Plot
Overview
Plotting Images and Data
Plotting Examples
Plot Animation Toolbar
Image Plot Properties
Plot Menu Bar
File Open
Open Command
Opening & Saving Files
Opening Files from File Lists
Palette Properties
Overview
Palette Pane
Using the Palette Property Trackbars
Rubber Banding the Palette Graph
Report
Overview
Grid Controls
Report Commands
Report Window Menu
Grid Properties
Overview
Grid Appearance Properties
Grid Printing Properties
Text Editor
Overview
Creating a new text document
Text Editor Edit Menu
Text Editor View Menu
Transfer Function Properties
Transfer Function Pane
Transfer Function Popup Menus
File Lists
Overview
Creating file lists
Editing file lists
Opening files from file lists
Property Profiles for Commands
Overview
Profile Control
Setting default and local properties
Image Window Properties
Image Plot Properties
Histogram Properties
Centroid Properties
Radial Profile Properties
Transfer Function Properties
General Properties
Selecting source images for commands
Overview
Selecting a File List
Working with Images
Opening Images
Overview
File opening and saving commands
Using Drag & Drop
Opening image files
Creating an image catalog
Opening files from file Lists
Using File Opening Plug-ins
Selecting Source Images
Saving Images
Saving a single image
Saving an image set
Saving all image set members
Saving an image set to a Folder
Saving an image set with a filename Suffix
Saving an image set to a file list
Displaying Images
Overview
Tutorial: Displaying Your First Image
Creating and displaying an image catalog
Magnifying the image
Cursor command modes
Using the image cursor
Image Windows
Image Sets
Animating image sets
Image Set Toolbar
Image Set Properties
File Lists
Adjusting the Image Cursor
Viewing and editing pixel values
Transfer Functions
Changing the Transfer Function
Image Palettes
Changing the Image Palette
Image Sets
Overview
Image Set Applications
Animating image sets
Image Set Toolbar
Image Set Flags
Changing the Image Set
Image Sets menu for one image
Saving Image Sets
Save All
Save as File List
Save to Folder
Save With Suffix
Copy and Paste
Copy commands
Copying image data to the clipboard
Paste Commands
Pasting image data from the clipboard
Copying the window bitmap
Copying the image bitmap
Duplicating an image to a new window
Crop at Cursor
Headers and image information
FITS Header Pane
Editing the FITS header
Editing image information
Examining image properties
Image Pixel Types
Modifying keywords
Viewing Comment keywords
Viewing History keywords
Viewing WCS keywords
Viewing and editing pixel values
Image Cursor
Overview
Adjusting the cursor size & position
Setting image cursor preferences
Go To Coordinate command
Palettes
Overview
Palette Pane
Adjusting with the trackbars
Stretching the palette
Import Palette
Export Palette
Transfer Functions
Overview
Relationship with image palettes
Choosing Transfer Function Settings
Setting properties from menus
The Image Toolbar
Overview
Set X-Axis Linear Format
Set Y-Axis Linear Format
Set Pixel Value Format
Select Image Properties
FITS Format
FITS Format Description
FITS Keywords
World Coordinate System Keywords
Photometry Keywords
FITS Header Pane
FITS Header Editor
Editing procedures
Setting author information
Transfer Functions
Overview
Transfer Functions
Printing
Overview
Properties
Printing Properties dialog
Printing Placement Properties
Overlay Properties
Text Properties
Printing Heading Properties
RGB Images
Working with RGB images
Applying the palette to RGB pixels
Converting RGB to Grayscale
Converting luminance to RGB
Making an RGB image from L,R,G,B
Making an RGB image from R,G,B
Adding Labels to Images
Overview
Preferences
Example
Changing the label text
Coordinate systems
Overview
Image Coordinate System
Pixel Coordinate Definition
Subpixel Coordinate Definition
Image Display Orientation
FITS Image Orientation
Image Coordinate Display
Astrometric Calibration
Setting a linear scale
Setting independent linear scales
Setting linear world coordinate units
Setting a linear arcsecond scale
Moving the image cursor to a coordinate
Setting brightness units
Coordinate Readout
Set X-Axis Linear Format
Set Y-Axis Linear Format
Set Pixel Value Format
Select Image Properties
World Coordinate System
Overview
Setting an Arcsecond Scale
Setting an Equatorial WCS
Deleting the WCS
World Coordinate System Keywords
Moving the image cursor to a coordinate
Astrometric Calibration
Overview
Tutorial
Entering coordinate data
Changing reference point data
Calibration Preferences dialog
Plate Solution Strategy
Other preferences
Measuring Images
Overview
Measurement Panes
Moving the image cursor to a coordinate
Image Tool Keystroke Commands
Setting Application Properties
Setting statistical estimator properties
Opening a table in Microsoft Excel
Tutorial: Working with Measurements in a Grid
Aperture Photometry
Overview of aperture photometry
Apphot Pane for photometry results
Tutorial: Introduction to Aperture Photometry
Tutorial: Doing Time Series Photometry
How Magnitude and Errors are calculated
Editing target data and standard star data
Automatic detection of objects
Plotting a light curve
Kwee - van Woerden
Setting marker attributes
Preparing a report for the AAVSO
Setting the aperture size and shape
Setting photometry keywords
Fixing header problems in photometric data
Importing a photometry catalog
Definitions of measurements
Definitions of errors
Understanding signal to noise ratio
Aperture Photometry Toolbar
Aperture Photometry Properties
Aperture Photometry Properties dialog
Points Properties
Calibration Properties
Image Information Properties
Other Properties
AAVSO Report Properties
Astrometric Calibration
Overview
Tutorial
Plate Solution Strategy
Centroid Measurements
Overview
Properties
Distance & Angle Measurements
Overview
Measuring Distance and Angle
Example
Angle Measurement Definition
Scatter Plots
Scatter Plot command
Tutorial: Making a Scatter Plot of Measurements
Selecting Cells in a Grid Control
Statistics Measurements
Overview
Statistics Properties
Marker Properties
Overview
Drawing Properties
Centroid Properties
Configuring Lines & Markers
Preferences dialog
Drawing Properties
Centroid Preferences
Copying & Pasting Markers
Copy Markers
Paste Markers
Report Windows
Overview
Grid Controls
Grid Command Menu
Optimizing the column width
Opening a table in Excel
Grid Properties
Grid Printing Properties
Grid Appearance Properties
Point Sampling
Overview
Pixel Table Pane
Viewing and editing pixel values
Plotting Images and Data
Overview
Image Tool Keystroke Commands
Creating a Chart from Table Data
Creating a Plot from Table Data
Examples of plot types
Examples of row plots
Setting Application Properties
Plot Windows
Plot Windows
Plot Menu
Creating a Plot from Table Data
Saving a plot as a text file
Chart Windows
Chart Windows
Chart Command Menu
Chart Axis Limits
Chart Properties Pane
Chart Series Properties
Chart Titles
Creating a Chart from Table Data
Chart Legend Properties
Working with Plot Series
Example of Changing Plot Series Attributes
Overplotting & Animating
Copying & pasting plot series
Adding series to a line profile plot
Plot Default Marker Properties
Setting marker attributes before the plot
Default Series Properties
Plot Series Properties
Plot Series Data
Plot Toolbar
Plot Context Menu
Column and Row Profile Plots
Column profile plots
Making a column profile plot
Row profile plots
Making a row profile plot
Plotting an averaged line
Overview
Plot Averaging Modes
Controlling the Plot Appearance
Changing Plot Attributes
The Plot Attributes dialog
Using a dialog shortcut
Plot X Axis Properties
Plot Y Axis Properties
Label Attributes
Plot Frame Properties
Selecting a Coordinate System
Plot coordinate systems
Using World Coordinates
Comparison of coordinate systems
Line profile plots
Command
Creating a Line Profile plot
Using the Line Profile menu
Line Profile toolbar
Adding series along different lines
Moving the line to add a new series
Adding parallel series
Examples of overplotting series
Preferences
Setting Line Profile preferences
Centroid Preferences
Marker Properties
Radial profile plots
Making a radial profile plot
Radial Profile Properties
Histogram plots
Making a Histogram plot
Histogram Properties
Comparison of Histogram Preferences
Scatter plots
Scatter Plot command
Tutorial: Making a Scatter Plot of Measurements
Selecting Cells in a Grid Control
Copy & Paste
Example
Copying plot data to the clipboard
Pasting plots from the clipboard
Copying the window bitmap
Printing Plots
Overview
Properties
Overview
Printing Placement Properties
Printing Overlay Properties
Printing Heading Properties
Printing Text Properties
Calibrating Images
Express Image Calibration
Express Image Calibration
Bias Correction Properties
Dark Correction Properties
Flat Correction Properties
Cosmetic Correction Properties
Creating a Master Bias
Create Master Bias
Creating a Master Dark
Create Master Dark
Create Master Flat
Create Master Flat
Flat Frame Selection Criteria
Selecting Source Images
Overview
Modifying header keywords
Creating a Pixel Mask
Applying a Pixel Mask
Editing and Creating a Blemish Mask
Applying a Blemish Mask
Astrometric Calibration
Repairing Artefacts and Cosmetic Defects
Overview of Methods
Interactively Repairing Defects
Blemish Masks
Creating and editing a blemish mask
Applying a Blemish Mask
Pixel Masks
Creating a Pixel Mask
Editing a Pixel Mask
Applying a Pixel Mask
Processing Images
Overview
Selecting Source Images
Image Types
Cosmetic Repairs
Interactive Repair
Interactive Repair Properties
Blemish Masks
Creating and editing a blemish mask
Applying a blemish mask
Pixel Masks
Creating a pixel mask from an image
Editing a pixel mask
Applying a pixel mask
Combining Images
Combine Image Set
Combine Files
Image combining methods
Setting normalization preferences
Region Statistics
Registering Images
Aligning Images
Aligning at a point
Aligning on an extended object
Aligning using the WCS calibration
Register Images command
Overview
Tutorial: Introduction to Image Registration
Example using Point Tracking
Image Registration Properties
Image Registration Properties Dialog
Resampling
Background
Marker Properties
Resampling Properties
Tracking Properties
Image Region Statistics
Overview
Estimators
Editing & Copying
Overview
Duplicating to a new window
Emptying the Clipboard
Math Commands
Overview
Arithmetic Operations
Change Pixel Type
Combine Image Set
Image Arithmetic
Normalize Image
Region Statistics
Value Arithmetic
Using Plug-ins
Geometry Commands
Rotating Images
Rotation Menu
Overview
Mirror
Reverse
Rotate
Rotate by angle (from Image Toolbar)
Transpose
Cropping to specified bounds
Cropping to the Image Cursor
Cropping by a rectangle
Commands for RGB data
List of RGB image commands
Applying a palette to the pixels
Converting to RGB
Converting to Grayscale
Converting to 16 bit Luminance
Converting to 8 bit Luminance
Color balance factors
Removing color noise
Making an LRGB Image
Making an RGB Image
Commands for Luminance Data
Converting the data type
Converting to RGB
Undo
Using undo
Filtering Images
Overview
Removing Extreme Pixel Values
De-speckle Filter command
Rank Filtering
Median Filter
Smoothing Image Details
Rectangle Filter
Gaussian Filter
Sharpening Image Details
High Pass Filter
Unsharp Mask
Enhancing Edges
Rotational Gradient Filter
Rotational Gradient example
Miscellaneous Kernel Filters
Custom Filter Kernel
3x3 Custom Filter command
Image Diagnostics and Calculations
Overview
Calculate Gain
Calculate Readout Noise
Calculate Image Scale
Calculate Airmass