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, I have updated to the latest version and I have tried to load more data from another session, using the multi session process as normal but when I run the calibration session it crashes and closes? Ive restarted multiple times but the same keeps happening. Ive changed the target data and loaded other frames and it still crashes with no error message?? As always, these are NEF frames from a Nikon and Ive never had this problem before updating to the new version?
Regards
Richie
Hi Richie @richielisa,
On which operating system does this occur? On what hardware (CPU, memory, HDD) ? Please give as much details as you can.
How much memory is allocated to APP with the CFG button?
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Maybe you can share the data on which this happens so we can have a look?
You can upload it here:
https://ariesprodstor.astropixelprocessor.com:7001/
username & password : appuser
Make a folder with your name and let me know once uploaded 😉
Mabula
Hi,
its on Windows 10 and Ive tried to use the internal Hard drive and an external one. If I only use 1 lot of data it seems to be fine but multiple sessions aren't working as normal for me. 6GB of Ram is used on CFG. APP closes abruptly and I cant even see open the file with any of my applications for some reason?
Hi Richard @richielisa,
So if you load only 1 session it works okay?
The behaviour sounds like a fatal crash when one of the NEFs is being loaded. Could it be that one of the NEF frames is damaged?
I guess it crashes each time when you load a certain set of NEF frames, right? One of those NEFs might be bad... do upload them as I suggested if you want me to have a look.
Mabula
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Hi Mabula, yes, always the same point by the looks of things.Â
I will upload all the files if I can. Theres a few!
Regards
Rich
Just uploading now but it will take sometime as there is a lot of data unfortunately.Â
Should be uploaded now Mabula.
Dear Richard @richielisa,
Thank you very much for uploading 😉 As I suspected, one of your NEF frames is corrupt. It's this one: \Bode Galaxy\Bode Session 2\Darks\DSC_4188.nef
Just by looking at the file size relative to the other NEF frames, you will see that something is not right.
APP should not fatally crash in this case, so I am fixing this problem now so APP will report next time that such a file is corrupt. I will try to release a fixed version as soon as possible 😉
Mabula
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Hi Mabula,
I removed the file and ran APP again but its crashed again?
Regards
Richie
Hi Richard @richielisa,
Probably there are more corrupt files?
The console panel is showing on which frame it fails. But there is a lot of information there so you need to study it a little bit.
I have checked all your data now and found these 2 frames to be bad/corrupt, both are darks:
\Bode Galaxy\Bode Session 1\Darks\DSC_4079.nef
\Bode Galaxy\Bode Session 2\Darks\DSC_4188.nef
The rest of the frames seem fine 😉
Mabula
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Hi Mabula,
That seems to have sorted it. Im passed the calibration stage, where it was failing before.
Not being computer savvy I couldnt see what was wrong with those files. If its possible could APP have something built in that would identify corrupt files so tgey can be removed. It would save hours of frustration.
Thanks again mate.
Regards
Richie
Hi Mabula,
That seems to have sorted it. Im passed the calibration stage, where it was failing before.
Not being computer savvy I couldnt see what was wrong with those files. If its possible could APP have something built in that would identify corrupt files so tgey can be removed. It would save hours of frustration.
Thanks again mate.
Regards
Richie
Yes Richie,
I have already fixed it ;-), the next APP version will detect the corruption and will tell you which frame(s) are not good. It will not crash anymore.
Mabula
You are a star mate. Thanks!
