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.
Hi Luke,
You'd have to contact support@astropixelprocessor.com at this moment sorry, I'm moving towards Denmark at the moment. I expect to be able to help you personally again from sept-6 onwards. If you mail support@ I'll notify Mabula so hopefully he can help you out in the mean time.
Sure - have emailed support.
Hi Luke, I have some time today. I'm not seeing an entry for you with your outlook address, could you mail me the email address you used for registration? Send it to vincent@astropixelprocessor.com
Emailed you just now, thanks!
Excellent, found you and will mail the details.
Hi . I have the same problem others have had. The application is asking for my license but I no longer have the email with it. Hope you can help.
Cheers.
I'll have a look in our database and send you the code again.
Thanks very much Vincent. Very much appreciated. It is now safely saved.
I just renewed my renters license and apparently my email provider never took your provider off the blocked list as I requested. Can you send it to me from your personal email like you did last year? Thanks
I'll get on it immediately.
@vincent-mod Thanks
Dear Jonathan @minroadkill,
Your email provider should be informed by yourself that you want to receive mail from us (astropixelprocessor.com). Currently, your email provider is the only one in the world that refuses our email although we never send and have never sent unsolicited email. Please inform your provider that you opted in to receive email from us and then this issue will be solved.
We do not have an external email provider, we manage email servers ourself so we are the email provider 🙂 and we use all the latest email protocols like SPF, DKIM and DMARC so that in itself is already a reason why refusing email from us is a bit weird. Any other email provider does accept our emails.
In the past, I tried to inform your provider myself on which I never got any response. Any legitimate email provider should at least respond to such requests when proof is submitted that the emails are opted-in which i did back then.
Another solution is that you switch to another email provider yourself that does want to receive emails from astropixelprocessor.com ?
Mabula
Dear Jonathan,
I have sent your license details to you using my private gmail address 😉
Mabula
Hi Mabula, I have sent you a help request at support@astropixelprocessor.com, but did not receive a response. It is quite posssible, that my server is losing emails (it has happened before due to server outage), so I hope I'm getting the help I need in the end.
I bought a license for APP on Friday, but I did not get the email with the activation code! According to a forum post from 2017, this is supposed to be sent automatically after payment? I received 2 emails with receipts for my payment, but not the one with the activation code. I have checked my spam folder. I have an alternative email address (gwrang at gmail.com) I had a trial license before, it has expired and I uninstalled APP, trying to register a fresh installation. Thank you
Hi Gunther, I'll help you out here and send your code again with the mail address you registered. Sorry for the inconvenience, it should arrive within the hour, so if not, it must be in some mail folder.
Send, if not we will investigate further. Might be that your provider is blocking it for some reason, will be fixed.
Hi Mabula, I have sent you a help request at support@astropixelprocessor.com, but did not receive a response. It is quite posssible, that my server is losing emails (it has happened before due to server outage), so I hope I'm getting the help I need in the end.
I bought a license for APP on Friday, but I did not get the email with the activation code! According to a forum post from 2017, this is supposed to be sent automatically after payment? I received 2 emails with receipts for my payment, but not the one with the activation code. I have checked my spam folder. I have an alternative email address (gwrang at gmail.com) I had a trial license before, it has expired and I uninstalled APP, trying to register a fresh installation. Thank you
Hi Gunther @glossi,
I have resent the original email with your license details to you.
I have also checked our mail server logs, the email was sent and accepted by your mailprovider 1 minute after completion of your order. If you can not find the email anywhere in your mailbox, you should really contact your mailprovider.
I have sent our email server log records by email to you, which you can use to contact your mailprovider.
Mabula
Thank you, Vincent, I did receive it this time!
Did I order and pay for APP? I have a trial license and decided to get the renters. I entered my Card data and went to check out. Did I order APP or not?
william Strang (36020)
Dear William,
Did you use the same details as with the trial? Same email address (AOL) etc? If so, I'm only seeing the trial here and if you indeed use the same details, it appears that the payment was not successful. Please check your card details to see if that is the case, we will figure it out of course and thank you very much for wanting to order it.
Hi, I sent a help request to support@astropixelprocessor.com on Friday 8/26 and have not received a response yet. My computer recently crashed and I had to rebuild everything. I installed the latest version of APP for which I purchased an owner license back in May of 2020 but I cannot seem to find the email with my license info. I do have the invoice # if that will help.
Dear John @johnmckay,
Apologies for the delay, I have sent your Owner's license to your email address 😉 You should have received it by now.
Mabula
Nothing in spam,no email, maybe your system have a issue ?
No, we would know if it has. It can be that some mail is being rejected by a mail server you use or it ended up in another folder. Let me check it and send it to you again.
hi guys, i have just brought a new laptop and cannot find my renters licence, could you send it out please
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Hi Justin, let me have a look on our server and I'll send you the code again. It's likely that the mail was blocked.
Hello, I can't seem to find the email containing my license code, could you please send one?
Did you check the junk folder? I'll send you the license information again via my account as well.
hi, i have been using APP since last october, but for some reason when opening APP last night, it asked for my name, licence code and email, it's never done that before, i have the invoice from purchasing, but can't find my licence code, how to i resolve this? 🙂
ash
