Mira Pro x64
 Contents
 New Features
 About this Document
 Tech Support
 Getting Started
 Glossary of Terms
 Image Types
 Critical Concepts
 Setting Application Properties
 Command Dialogs
 Selecting Source Images
 Mira's Special Folders
 Screen Capture
 Changing the GUI Theme
 Tip of the Day
 User Interface
  User Interface Overview
  Working with Toolbars
  Initializing Toolbars and Docking Panes
  Docking Panes
  Command Dialogs
  Command Toolbars
  Main Message Pane
  Image Cursor Toolbar
  Image Keys Pane
  Status Bar
  Accelerator Keys
  Profile Control
  Status Bar
  GUI Theme
  Changing the GUI theme
  Context Menus
   Image Context Menu
   Image Context Menu for an image set
   Plot Context Menu
   3-D Plot Context Menu
   Grid Context Menu
  Dialog Styles
   Command Dialogs
   Dialog Buttons
  Docking Panes
   Overview of Docking Panes
   Docking Panes Toolbar
   Image Bar
   Animation Bar
   Image Keys Pane
   Measurement Panes
   Initializing Toolbars and Docking Panes
  Grid Controls
   Overview
   Report Windows
   Grid Context Menu
   Measurement Panes
   Table Properties
    Overview
    Table Appearance Properties
    Table Printing Properties
  Menus
   Tear-off menus
   Main Context Menu
   Default Menu Bar
   Align Images Menu
   Pictures of Menus
    Creating new text documents
    Default File Menu
    Calibration Menu
    Diagnostics menu
    Edit Menu
    File Menu
    Measure Menu
  Mira Windows
   Image Windows
   Plot Windows
   Grid Controls
   Image
    Overview
    Animation Pane
    Image Bar
    Image Set Toolbar
    Image Window Keystroke Commands
    Image Keys Pane
    Adjusting the Image Cursor
    Command Modes
     Cursor Command Modes
     Roam Mode
     Cursor Mode
   Plot
    Overview
    Plotting Images and Data
    Plotting Examples
    Plot Bar
    Plot Animation Bar
    Plot Properties
    Plot Series Properties
    Plot Marker Properties
    Image Plot Properties
   3-D Plot
    Overview
    3-D Animation Toolbar
    3-D Rotation Toolbar
    3-D Drawing Attributes
    3-D Light Source Dialog
    3-D Viewpoint Dialog
    3-D Window Dialog
   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
     Table Appearance Properties
     Table 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
  Plug-ins
   File Opening Plug-ins
   Image Processing Plug-ins
  Toolbars
   Working with Toolbars
   Command Toolbars
   Image Keys Pane
   3-D Animation Toolbar
   3-D Rotation Toolbar
   Cursor Tools Toolbar
   Image Cursor Toolbar
   Image Plot Toolbar
   Image Set Toolbar
   Image Tools Toolbar
   Image Bar
   Calibration Tools Toolbar
   Interactive Repair Toolbar
   Main Toolbar
   Measurements Toolbar
 Tutorials
  Overview
  Displaying an Image
  Displaying an Image Set
  Creating Plots from Images
  Introduction to Image Registration
  Making a Scatter Plot of Measurements
  Using FITS Keywords to Analyze Image Data
  Introduction to Aperture Photometry
  Doing Time Series Photometry
  Cleaning Artifacts from an Image Set
  Introduction to File Event Scripting
  Introduction to Source Extraction
  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
   Plotting in World Coordinates
   Comparison of Histogram Preferences
   Contour Plotting with Smoothing
  3-D Plots
   3-D Pixel Representations
   3-D Z-Scaling
  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
 Property Profiles for Commands
  Overview
  Profile Control
 Setting default and local properties
  Image Window Properties
  Image Plot Properties
  Histogram Properties
  Centroid Properties
  FWHM Preferences
  Radial Profile Properties
  Transfer Function Properties
  General Properties
 Selecting source images for commands
  Overview
 File Lists
  Overview
  Creating file lists
  Editing file lists
  Opening files from file lists
 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
  Exporting as a binary image
  Exporting as a text image
 Displaying Images
  Overview
  Tutorial: Displaying Your First Image
  Creating and displaying an image catalog
  Creating synthetic images containing noise and stars
  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
  Setting 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
  Image Cursor
   Overview
   Adjusting the cursor size & position
   Setting image cursor preferences
   Go To Coordinate command
  Importing and exporting Images
   Import Binary Image
   Export Image as Binary
   Import Text Image
   Export Image as Text
  Copying and pasting images
   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
   Duplicating an image set to a new window
   Cropping the image using the cursor region
  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
   Setting pixels to a new value
   Setting the value of a region
  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 Bar
   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 images to Grayscale
   Converting Intensity Images to RGB
   Convert to 8-bit Intensity
   Convert to 16-bit Intensity
   Convert to 24-bit
   Convert to 48-bit
   Extracting channels from the RGB image
   Making an RGB image from L,R,G,B
   Making an RGB image from R,G,B
  Creating Synthetic Images
   Create Synthetic Image
  Adding Labels to Images
   Overview
   Preferences
   Example
   Changing the label text
Working with FITS Format
 Overview
 FITS Format Definition
 FITS keywords
 FITS Header Editor
 FITS Header Pane
 FITS image orientation
 WCS keywords
 Comment keywords
 History keywords
 MIRAPROC keyword
 Editing the FITS header
 Modifying keywords
 Adding metadata at file open or file save
 Creating an image list from keywords
 Searching images for keyword values
 Viewing the FITS File Header
 Fixing Header Problems in Photometric Data
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
 Image Measurements Toolbar
 Image Cursor Toolbar
 Image Keys Pane
 Moving the image cursor to a coordinate
 Setting Application Properties
 Testing using synthetic images
 Setting statistical estimator properties
 Opening a table in Microsoft Excel
 Tutorial: Working with Measurements in a Grid
 Angle Measurements
  Command overview
  Marker properties
 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
  Calculate Julian Date
  Definitions of measurements
  Definitions of errors
  Understanding signal to noise ratio
  Aperture Photometry Toolbar
  Aperture Photometry Properties
   Aperture Photometry Properties dialog
   Point Markers
   Calibration Results
   Image Information
   Photometry Keywords
   AAVSO Reporting
   Other Properties
   Measurement Output
 Astrometric Calibration
  Overview
  Tutorial
  Plate Solution Strategy
 Centroid Measurements
  Command overview
  Centroid properties
 Distance & Angle Measurements
  Command overview
  Measuring Distance and Angle
  Example
  Angle Measurement Definition
 FWHM Measurements
  Command overview
  FWHM properties
 Labeling Images
  Overview
  Label Properties
  Examples
 Line Measurements
  Command overview
  Marker properties
 Plot Line Measurements
  Command overview
  Marker Properties
 Plot Point Measurements
  Plot Point Measurements
  Marker Properties
  Shape Properties
 Point Measurements
  Command overview
  Marker properties
 Region Measurements
  Command overview
  Marker properties
  Region properties
 Statistics Measurements
  Command overview
  Statistics Measurements
  Statistics properties
  List Statistics Keywords
  Remove Statistics Keywords
 Marker Properties
  Overview
  Drawing Properties
  Centroid Properties
  Region Properties
  Copying & Pasting Markers
   Copy Markers
   Paste Markers
 Scatter Plots
  Scatter Plot command
  Tutorial: Making a Scatter Plot of Measurements
  Selecting Cells in a Grid Control
 Point Sampling
  Overview
  Pixel Table Pane
  Viewing and editing pixel values
 Report Windows
  Overview
  Grid Controls
  Grid Context Menu
  Optimizing the column width
  Opening a table in Excel
  Table Properties
   Table Printing Properties
   Table Appearance Properties
Plotting Images and Data
 Overview
 Plot Bar Pane
 Creating a Chart from Table Data
 Creating a Plot from Table Data
 Examples of plot types
 Examples of row plots
 Setting Application Properties
 Horizontal Slice Plot
 Vertical Slice Plot
 Plot Windows
  Plot Windows
  Creating a Plot from Table Data
  Window Components
   Plot Bar
   Plot Animation Bar
   Plot Context Menu
  Window Properties
   Plot Properties
   Plot Series Properties
  Measurements
   Plot Line Measurements
   Plot Point Measurements
   Statistics Measurements
   Statistics Properties
   Mark Statistic
   Plot Marker Properties
   Plot Notes Pane
  Plot Series Data
  Go to Source Image
  Plot Averaging Modes
  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
  Changing Plot Series Attributes
  Overplotting & Animating
  Go to Source Image
  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
 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
 Changing the Plot Appearance
  Changing Plot Attributes
   The Plot Attributes dialog
   Using a dialog shortcut
   X Axis Properties
   Y Axis Properties
   Plot Labels
   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
  Adding series along different lines
  Adding parallel 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
  Making a Bit Histogram plot
 Scatter plots
  Scatter Plot command
  Tutorial: Making a Scatter Plot of Measurements
  Selecting Cells in a Grid Control
 Pixel Series plots
  Plotting a value through an image set
 3-D plots
  3-D Surface Plot command
  3-D Plot Type Examples
  3-D Z-Scaling Examples
  Preferences
   3-D Viewpoint
   3-D Window Dialog
   3-D Drawing Attributes
   3-D Light Source
   Surface Plot Z Limits
 Contour plots
  Contour Plot command
  Contour Drawing Properties
  Interactive Contour Plot command
  Interactive Contour Properties
  Varying the degree of contour smoothing
 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
 Selecting Source Images
 Overview
 Creating synthetic images
 Trimming an image section
 Adding metadata at File Open or Save
 Modifying header keywords
 Creating a Pixel Mask
 Applying a Pixel Mask
 Editing and Creating a Blemish Mask
 Applying a Blemish Mask
 File Event Scripting
 Astrometric Calibration
 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
 Create Illumination Flat
  Create Illumination Flat
  Flat Correction Properties
 Create Pixel Flat
  Create Pixel Flat
  Flat Correction Properties
Repairing Artefacts and Cosmetic Defects
 Overview of Methods
 Cleaning artefacts from an image set
 Interactively Repairing Defects
 Evaluating repair techniques using synthetic images
 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
 Removing Stars from Images
  Overview
  Changing the aperture properties
  Viewing data for template samples
  Properties
   Overview
   Point Properties
   Other Properties
Processing Images
 Overview
 Command Dialogs
 Selecting Source Images
 Image Types
 Image Region Commands
 Testing calibration strategies using synthetic images
 Image Keys Pane
 File Event Scripting
 Adding metadata at File Open or Save
 Creating an image list from keywords
 Searching images for keyword values
 Cosmetic Repairs
  Interactive Repair
  Interactive Repair Properties
  Removing cosmic rays from an image set
  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
  Removing Stars from Images
   Overview
   Changing the aperture properties
   Viewing data for template samples
   Properties
    Overview
    Point Properties
    Other Properties
 Combining Images
  Combine Image Set
  Combine Files
  Image combining methods
  Setting normalization preferences
  Region Statistics
 Aligning Images
  Overview
  Aligning on a point
  Aligning on an extended object
  Aligning using the WCS calibration
  High Precision Registration command
   Overview
   Tutorial: Introduction to Image Registration
   Example using Point Tracking
  Image Registration Properties
   Image Registration Properties Dialog
   Resampling
   Background
   Image Registration Residuals
  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
  Fit Background
  Image Arithmetic
  Normalize Image
  Region Statistics
  Value Arithmetic
  Using Plug-ins
 Geometry Commands
  Overview
  Rotating Images
  Rotation Menu
  Affine Transformation
  Expand Image
  Imbed Image
  Mirror
  Reverse
  Rotate
  Rotate by angle (from Image Toolbar)
  Scale
  Shift
  Transpose
  Cropping to specified bounds
  Cropping to the Image Cursor
  Cropping by a rectangle
  Align Horizontal
  Align Vertical
 Commands for RGB data
  Working with RGB Images
  Applying a palette to the pixels
  Converting to RGB
  Converting to Grayscale
  Converting to 16 bit Luminance
  Converting to 8 bit Luminance
  Removing color noise
  Extracting channels
  Making an LRGB Image
  Making an RGB Image
 Commands for Intensity data
  Extracting byte planes
  Converting the data type
  Converting to RGB
 Undo
  Using undo
Filtering Images
 Overview
 Removing Extreme Pixel Values
  Cosmic Ray Filter
  De-speckle Filter command
  Clip High Values
  Clip Low Values
 Rank Filtering
  Rank Filter
  Median Filter
  Minimum Filter
  Maximum Filter
 Smoothing Image Details
  Rectangle Filter
  Elliptical Filter
  Binomial Filter
  Gaussian Filter
  Block Average Filter
  Block Sum Filter
 Sharpening Image Details
  High Pass Filter
  Unsharp Mask
  Maximum Entropy command
  Maximum Entropy example
 Enhancing Edges
  Compass Gradient Filter
  Laplacian Filter
  Rotational Gradient Filter
  Rotational Gradient example
 Miscellaneous Kernel Filters
  Custom Filter Kernel
  3x3 Custom Filter command
Extracting Sources from Images
 Using the MExtract Module
 Definitions of Extracted Properties
 Running the Pipeline
 Tutorial
 Preferences
  Properties for the Source Extraction Tutorial
  Source Extraction dialog
  Procedure page
  Background page
  Detect page
  Filter page
  Match page
  Difference page
  Post Process page
 Post Processing Options
  Centroid Properties (Source Extraction)
  FWHM Properties (Source Extraction)
  Aperture Photometry Properties
  Variability Properties
Image Diagnostics and Calculations
 Overview
 Create Synthetic Image
 Bit Histogram Plot
 Calculate Julian Date
 Calculate Airmass
 Calculate Readout Noise
 Calculate Gain
 Calculate Image Scale
Using the Pro Script Module
 Working with scripts
 Using the Script Editor Window
 Using the Script Manager
 Editing script keywords
 Related Topics
  Script Editor Toolbar
  Script Editor View Menu
  Script Editor Context Menu
File Event Scripting
 File Event Scripting
 Tutorial: Introduction to File Event Scripting