UPDATE FROM MABULA
I have had a very rough 2 months unfortunately health wise. I was struck 3x in a row with bacterial infections. The second infection occurred after a routine hospital checkup and I became very sick. I had to rest and take a lot of antibiotics. Once I was recovering and restarting work 1 month ago, I again became sick. The infection was not yet gone, so even more antibiotics and rest was needed. Needless to say, it took a lot of my energy and I needed a lot of rest.
Finally, the infection is really gone and my energy is coming back step-by-step now and I have started work again. I am terribly sorry to have kept you waiting for support. I will address all outstanding questions and e-mails step-by step and will be on the forum daily from today.
APP 2.0.0-beta47 will come soon as well, a lot of work was already completed before I became very ill, so the release is also nearly ready for you. Beta47 will be much faster actually. Many workflows will be more than 2x faster, mosaics can even be 10x faster than before because registration really received a major boost... all compared to beta46. Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
I really dislike how long it took to post-process image, especially the calibration and stacking and I was about to give up on astrophotography because of it. APP has made all that so easy now and with even better results, has made me excited and motivated to do astrophotography again. APP is very close to providing an end to end solution and one of the missing pieces is noise reduction but I've seen in the forum, that this coming. The results I get with the automatic stretching are as good as one gets from manually stretching plus the color calibration also produces excellent results. I used to have to work very hard on getting the right color balance with Startools but now it's easy when using an APP stacked image as it's already nearly perfect. Here are a few images including a 2 frame mosaic which was easy to do with APP. APP used to create the LRGB stack and Startools for stretching, deconv/sharpening, and noise reduction. Thanks so much, Mabula!
https://www.astrobin.com/357188/B/
https://www.astrobin.com/354196/?nc=user
https://www.astrobin.com/353846/D/
Edit by mabula: inserted the image URLs from astrobin for embedded images 😉
Thank you @leuthold for sharing these awesome images 😎 😍 !
(Apologies for not replying sooner, I had a technical glitch on my forum software I am afraid, should be sorted now )
I am very glad that APP contributes to your enjoyment of astrophotography, that makes it all worth it if someone produces images like this ;-), really !
Your images are awesome, keep it up !
Mabula
