Mira Pro x64 User's Guide - Getting Started

Setting Application Properties

Command Dialogs

Screen Capture

Multi Tab Interface

Mira's Special Folders

Changing the GUI Theme

Tutorials

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

Introduction to File Event Scripting

Cleaning Artifacts from an Image Set

Introduction to Source Extraction

Introduction to Astrometric Calibration

Examples

File Lists

Creating File Lists

Opening Files from File Lists

Images

The Boost Transfer Function Option

Image Rotation

Adding Labels to an Image

Editing the FITS Header

Plots

Plotting an Averaged Line

Changing Plot Series Attributes

Plotting in World Coordinates

Comparison of Histogram Preferences

Contour Plotting 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

Image Basics

Image Sets

Image Set Applications

Image Sets Menu

Duplicating an Image Set

File Lists

Opening files from file lists

Creating file lists

Editing file lists

Opening Images

File opening and saving commands

Using Drag & Drop

Opening image files

Creating an image catalog

Duplicating an Image

Duplicating an Image Set

Opening files from file Lists

Using File Opening Plug-ins

Saving all image set members

Importing a Binary Image

Importing a Text Image

Saving Images

Saving a single image

Saving an image set

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

Image Cursor

Radial Profile Properties

Image Cursor Properties

Setting default and local properties

Image Window Properties

Image Plot Properties

Histogram Properties

Centroid Properties

FWHM Preferences

Palette Properties

Transfer Function Properties

General Properties

Selecting source images for commands

Image Display

Palettes

Using the Palette Property Trackbars

Rubber Banding the Palette Graph

Importing Palettes

Transfer Functions

Transfer Function Properties dialog

Choosing Transfer Function Properties

Using the Boost Transfer Function Option

Default Transfer Function Properties

Transfer Function Pane

Transfer Function Popup Menus

Capture Cursor to TF command

User Interface

User Interface Overview

Working with Toolbars

Initializing Toolbars and Docking Panes

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

Initializing Toolbars and Docking Panes

Reset Docking Panes

Property Profiles for Commands

Grid Controls

Table Properties

Table Appearance Properties

Table Printing Properties

Menus

Pictures of Menus

Creating new text documents

Mira Windows

Image

Image Window Keystroke Commands

Adjusting the Image Cursor

Command Modes

Plot

Plotting Images and Data

Creating a Plot from Table Data

Plot Marker Properties

Image Plot Properties

Creating a Chart from Table Data

Chart

Chart Windows

Plotting Images and Data

Chart Command Menu

Chart Axis Limits

Chart Properties Pane

Chart Series Properties

Chart Titles

Chart Legend Properties

3-D Plot

Opening Files from File Lists

3-D Animation Toolbar

3-D Rotation Toolbar

3-D Drawing Attributes

3-D Light Source Dialog

File Open

Opening & Saving Files

Report

Grid Properties

Table Appearance Properties

Table Printing Properties

Text Editor

Creating a new text document

Text Editor Edit Menu

Text Editor View Menu

Script Editor Context Menu

Script Editor Window

Script Editor Toolbar

Script Editor View Menu

Image Processing Plug-ins

Plug-ins

File Opening Plug-ins

Toolbars

Working with Toolbars

Command Toolbars

Reset Bars and Menus

Calibration Tools Toolbar

3-D Animation Toolbar

Interactive Repair Toolbar

Main Toolbar

Measurements Toolbar

Working with FITS Format

Pixel Scale Sensitive FITS Keywords

FITS Format Definition

FITS keywords

FITS Header Editor

FITS Header Pane

FITS image orientation

List COMMENT Keywords

List HISTORY Keywords

List Statistics Keywords

List WCS 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

Image Information Editor (RGB images)

Coordinate Systems

Pixel Coordinate Definition

Image Coordinate System

Subpixel Coordinate Definition

World Coordinate System

Image Display Orientation

FITS Image Orientation

Image Coordinate Display

Coordinate Commands

Go to cursor coordinates

Go To Object

Astrometric Calibration

Set an arcsecond scale

Set an equatorial scale

Set a linear scale

Set independent linear scales

Set linear world coordinate units

Calibrate a linear scale

Setting brightness units

Alignment Commands

High precision image registration

Align on Object

Align on Point

Align by WCS

Coordinate Readout

Set X-Axis Linear Format

Set Y-Axis Linear Format

Set Pixel Value Format

Select Image Properties

World Coordinate System

World Coordinate System Keywords

Deleting the WCS

Astrometric Calibration

Changing reference point data

Tutorial

Entering coordinate data

Calibration Preferences dialog

Plate Solution Strategy

Other preferences

Calibrating Images

Creating Synthetic Images

Trimming an image section

Adding metadata at File Open or Save

Modifying header keywords

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

Flat Frame Selection Criteria

Create Master Flat

Create Master Flat

Flat Correction Properties

Create Illumination Flat

Create Illumination Flat

Flat Correction Properties

Create Pixel Flat

Create Pixel Flat

Editing and Creating a Blemish Mask

Cosmetic Repairs

Creating a Pixel Mask

Applying a Pixel Mask

Clip Pixel Values

Clip High Values

Clip Low Values

Applying a Blemish Mask

Filtering Images

De-speckle Filter command

Removing Extreme Pixel Values

Cosmic Ray Filter

Rank Filtering

Smoothing Image Details

Sharpening Image Details

High Pass Filter

Unsharp Mask

Maximum Entropy command

Maximum Entropy example

Enhancing Edges

Gradient Filter

Rotational Gradient Filter

Rotational Gradient example

Laplacian Filter

Miscellaneous Kernel Filters

Custom Filter Kernel

3x3 Custom Filter command

Measuring Images

Image Measurements Toolbar

Measurement Panes

Image Cursor Toolbar

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

Overview of aperture photometry

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

Astrometric Calibration

Tutorial

Plate Solution Strategy

Centroid Measurements

Centroid properties

Distance & Angle Measurements

Measuring Distance and Angle

Example

Angle Measurement Definition

FWHM Measurements

Labeling Images

Line Measurements

Plot Line Measurements

Marker Properties

Plot Point Measurements

Plot Point Measurements

Marker Properties

Shape Properties

Point Measurements

Region Measurements

Region properties

Statistics Measurements

Remove Statistics Keywords

Statistics Measurements

Statistics properties

List Statistics Keywords

Marker 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

Viewing and editing pixel values

Pixel Table Pane

Report Windows

Optimizing the column width

Grid Controls

Grid Context Menu

Opening a table in Excel

Table Properties

Table Printing Properties

Table Appearance Properties

Plotting Images and Data

Creating a Chart from Table Data

Plot Bar Pane

Creating a Plot from Table Data

Examples of plot types

Examples of row plots

Setting Application Properties

Horizontal Slice Plot

Vertical Slice Plot

Stack Plots at Right

Reset Stacked Plot Origin

Plot Windows

Creating a Plot from Table Data

Saving a plot as a text file

Reset Stacked Plot Origin

Stack Plots at Right

Chart Windows

Chart Windows

Creating a Chart from Table Data

Chart Command Menu

Chart Axis Limits

Chart Properties Pane

Chart Series Properties

Chart Titles

Chart Legend Properties

Example: Changing Plot Series Properties

Working with Plot Series

Plot Series Pane command

Viewing Plot Series Data

Default Plot Series Properties

Overplotting & Animating

Go to Source Image

Copying & pasting plot series

Default Marker Properties

Setting marker attributes before the plot

1-D Curve Fitting

Sigma Clipping the 1-D Fit

1-D Fit Toolbar

1-D Fit Properties

1-D Fit Menu Commands

Using 1-D Fit Coefficient Forcing

Using 1-D Point Selection Regions

Using Point Deletion in the 1-D Fit

Using Series Selection for the 1-D Fit

1-D Fit Proeprties

Sigma Clipping Page

Set Coefs Page

Drawing Page

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

The Plot Attributes dialog

Plot Averaging Modes

Changing the Plot Appearance

Changing Plot Attributes

Using a dialog shortcut

Selecting a Coordinate System

Plot coordinate systems

Using World Coordinates

Comparison of coordinate systems

Line profile plots

Command

Creating a Line Profile plot

Preferences

Setting Line Profile preferences

Centroid Preferences

Marker Properties

Radial profile plots

Making a radial profile plot

Radial Profile Properties

PSF Fit Properties

Histogram plots

Histogram plot of entire image

Histogram plot at the image cursor

Histogram Properties

Comparison of Histogram Preferences

Making a Bit Histogram plot

Plot Measurements

Calculating Plot Statistics

Plot Point Measurements

Plot Line Measurements

Statistics Measurements

Statistics Properties

Mark Statistic

Plot Marker Properties

Plot Notes Pane

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 Plot Properties

Contour Drawing Properties

Interactive Contour Plot command

Interactive Contour Properties

Contour Plot Smoothing

Copy & Paste

Example

Copying plot data to the clipboard

Pasting plots from the clipboard

Copying the window bitmap

Printing Plots

Properties

Printing Placement Properties

Printing Overlay Properties

Printing Heading Properties

Printing Text Properties

Window Properties

Plot Properties

Plot Series Pane

Processing Images

Command Dialogs

Testing calibration strategies using synthetic images

Image Types

Image Region Commands

Adding metadata at File Open or Save

File Event Scripting

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

Clipping extreme pixel values

Clip High Values

Clip Low Values

Clip Pixel Values

Removing Stars from Images

Changing the aperture properties

Viewing data for template samples

Properties

Combining Images

Setting normalization preferences

Image Combining Methods

Combine Image Set

Combine Files

Normalize Image

Region Statistics

Aligning Images

Aligning on an extended object

Aligning on a point

Aligning using the WCS calibration

High Precision Registration command

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

Estimators

Editing & Copying

Duplicating to a new window

Emptying the Clipboard

Math Commands

Arithmetic Operations

Geometry Commands

Rotate by angle (from Image Toolbar)

Rotating Images

Rotation Menu

Affine Transformation

Scale

Shift

Transpose

Cropping to specified bounds

Cropping to the Image Cursor

Cropping by a rectangle

Align Horizontal

Align Vertical

Working with RGB images

Applying a palette to an RGB image

Merging color channels into an RGB Image

Merging color channels into an LRGB Image

Converting intensity to RGB

Converting intensity to Grayscale

Converting RGB to 16-bit Luminance

Converting to RGB to 8-bit Luminance

Removing color noise

Extracting channels from an RGB image

Commands for Intensity data

Extracting byte planes

Converting the data type

Converting to RGB

Undo

Using undo

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

Changing the aperture properties

Viewing data for template samples

Properties

Using the MExtract Module

Point Properties

Other Properties

Extracting Sources from Images

Definitions of Extracted Properties

Running the Pipeline

Tutorial

Preferences

Properties for the Source Extraction Tutorial

Source Extraction dialog

Post Processing Options

Centroid Properties (Source Extraction)

FWHM Properties (Source Extraction)

PSF Fit Properties

Aperture Photometry Properties

Variability Properties

Image Diagnostics and Calculations

Create Synthetic Image

Bit Histogram Plot

Calculate Airmass

Calculate Gain

Calculate Image Scale

Calculate Julian Date

Calculate Readout Noise

Mira Project Interface

Mira Project Interface Commands

Mira Project Manager

Mira Project Selector

Mira Scripting Interface