Mira Pro x64 - Selecting a File List

Initializing Toolbars and Docking Panes

Mira's Special Folders

Screen Capture

Changing the GUI Theme

Tip of the Day

User Interface

User Interface Overview

Working with Toolbars

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

Grid Controls

Table Properties

Table Appearance Properties

Table Printing Properties

Menus

Pictures of Menus

Creating new text documents

Mira Windows

Image

Adjusting the Image Cursor

Command Modes

Plot

Plotting Images and Data

Plot Series Properties

Plot Marker Properties

Image Plot 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

3-D Viewpoint Dialog

3-D Window Dialog

File Open

Open Command

Opening & Saving Files

Palette Properties

Using the Palette Property Trackbars

Palette Pane

Rubber Banding the Palette Graph

Report

Grid Properties

Table Appearance Properties

Table Printing Properties

Text Editor

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

Calibration Tools Toolbar

Interactive Repair Toolbar

Tutorials

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

Cleaning Artifacts from an Image Set

Introduction to File Event Scripting

Introduction to Astrometric Calibration

Introduction to Source Extraction

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

File Lists

Opening files from file lists

Creating file lists

Editing file lists

Property Profiles for Commands

Radial Profile Properties

Profile Control

Setting default and local properties

Image Window Properties

Image Plot Properties

Histogram Properties

Centroid Properties

FWHM Preferences

Transfer Function Properties

General Properties

Selecting source images for commands

Selecting a File List

Displaying Images

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

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

Image Sets menu for one image

Image Set Applications

Animating image sets

Image Set Toolbar

Image Set Flags

Changing the Image Set

Image Cursor

Adjusting the cursor size & position

Setting image cursor preferences

Go To Coordinate command

Opening Images

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

Saving all image set members

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

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

Adjusting with the trackbars

Palette Pane

Stretching the palette

Import Palette

Export Palette

Transfer Functions

Relationship with image palettes

Choosing Transfer Function Settings

Setting properties from menus

The Image Bar

World Coordinate System Keywords

Set X-Axis Linear Format

Set Y-Axis Linear Format

Set Pixel Value Format

Select Image Properties

FITS Format

FITS Format Description

FITS Keywords

Setting author information

Transfer Functions

Transfer Functions

Printing

Printing Properties dialog

Properties

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

Preferences

Example

Changing the label text

Working with FITS Format

Adding metadata at file open or file save

FITS Format Definition

FITS keywords

FITS Header Editor

FITS Header Pane

FITS image orientation

Editing the FITS header

Modifying keywords

Creating an image list from keywords

Searching images for keyword values

Viewing the FITS File Header

Fixing Header Problems in Photometric Data

Coordinate systems

Pixel Coordinate Definition

Image Coordinate System

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

Setting an Arcsecond Scale

Setting an Equatorial WCS

Deleting the WCS

World Coordinate System Keywords

Moving the image cursor to a coordinate

Astrometric Calibration

Changing reference point data

Tutorial

Entering coordinate data

Calibration Preferences dialog

Plate Solution Strategy

Other preferences

Measuring Images

Image Measurements Toolbar

Measurement Panes

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

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

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

Tutorial: Making a Scatter Plot of Measurements

Statistics properties

Marker Properties

Copying & Pasting Markers

Copy Markers

Paste Markers

Scatter Plots

Scatter Plot command

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

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

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

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

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

Properties

Printing Placement Properties

Printing Overlay Properties

Printing Heading Properties

Printing Text Properties

Calibrating Images

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

Changing the aperture properties

Viewing data for template samples

Properties

Point Properties

Other Properties

Processing Images

Command Dialogs

Testing calibration strategies using synthetic images

Image Types

Image Region Commands

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

Changing the aperture properties

Viewing data for template samples

Properties

Combining Images

Image combining methods

Setting normalization preferences

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

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

Commands for Intensity data

Extracting byte planes

Converting the data type

Converting to RGB

Undo

Using undo

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

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

Post Processing Options

Centroid Properties (Source Extraction)

FWHM Properties (Source Extraction)

Aperture Photometry Properties

Variability Properties

Image Diagnostics and Calculations