2026-10-09 APP 2.0.0-beta48 has been released !
This is mainly a bug fix release for the reported bugs in beta47. In addition it has a significant User Interface performance improvement noticable when you need to process 1000s of images in APP.
2026-10-03 APP 2.0.0-beta47 has been released !
This is a very big release... many code optimizations/rewrites, many parts of APP are much faster and more precise, especially star analysis and registration are much faster ! Big mosaics will go much faster 🙂
And we introduce a new preview filter, which includes the new Adaptive Deep Sky Stretch and a General Levels Stretch, this has been long over due. The old preview filter (the panel on the right side to stretch and preview your data) has not been updated for a couple of years and it is a critical part of any APP session.
Adaptive Deep Sky Stretch or ADSS is a much more intuitive stretch algorithm. It is also color preserving (which is a great new addition in itself ! ) which means that the highlights are no longer bleached, color is maintained from the linear data while stretching. You can simply stretch your data using the sky background level and signal width sliders which work much easier and more intuitive. You no longer need to fiddle with the old complicated sliders with zoom buttons. All the zoom buttons for the sliders are made redundant. And you can enter slider values in the slider value fields yourself. I will make a youtube video in the coming days to explain and fully introduce ADSS. Once the video is ready, it will be highlighted on the forum.
RGB Combine upgrade !. The RGB Combine Tool has been rewritten mostly. The tool is faster and easier to use and most importantly, the Luminance slider to inject a luminance channel or channels into the RGB composite is now working correctly. It no longer bleaches the RGB colors. Combined with the new ADSS preview, you will get much better and easier great composites with great color! I will also explain this in a new youtube video.
I would like to ask the site and vimeo administrator to include the subtitles of the videos so that people of other languages can understand the tutorials.
I'm a new APP user, I'm still in the evaluation period and I noticed that the tutorial videos are on vimeo. I'm used to watching all the videos on youtube, because there I can translate any language into mine (Portuguese). I did a search and found the link below that teaches the admin to enable translated subtitles and close captions.
I would also like to congratulate you for the wise choice of making a lifetime subscription available for the program, as any monthly or annual subscription is out of my plans.
link tutorial
https://vimeo.zendesk.com/hc/pt/articles/224968828-Closed-Captions-CC-e-Legendas
Dear Fernando,
I have forwarded your request to Mabula.
Thanks, Wouter
Dear Fernando @nandopaz11,
Thank you very much for your suggestions.
I will keep this in mind for new video tutorials, I have made a note for this to check and make possible perhaps.
For the existing video tutorials, I do not have any subtitles that vimeo could translate and it would actually be a huge task to make these subtitles for the existing tutorials now which I hope you can understand.
Mabula
