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 everyone,
Like I already mentioned in some replies in the past, I thought it would be good to make a post about my health and work these days. If you don't like reading about disease and such, totally understandable, just skip the post and take home I'm doing ok again. 😉
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As some of you know, last year, I got diagnosed with leukemia. At 46, that was quite the surprise. Since my previous job was all about cancer research, it was quite funny to talk at level with all doctors. For me and them, it made things quite easy communication-wise.
My treatment didn't go well unfortunately, for some reason my body couldn't handle the regular chemicals and it basically shut down all of my bone marrow production, leaving me in quite a life-line dancing-act. It took me 5 weeks of laying in bed and enduring a failing immune-system.
After that, I had to get going with a second option they had and this I tolerated very well luckily.
So well in fact that when Mabula contacted me again, invited me over and offered me to continue my work. This time focusing on the development of APP instead of the forum work, which he is doing now together with help from Simon. We already worked together on the code and I'm helping him modernizing the project, slashing some open issues and hopefully adding new features. I'm very grateful for him taking me back in.
Thanks for all your interactions in the past both here and at Astrofest, always enjoyed helping out. Onwards!
I'm glad you survived this horrible affliction. My cousin Barbie had that back in the late 1960's. She didn't make it as most did not at that time.Â
I hope you stay remission free.
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Szumi
@vincent-mod welcome back Vincent!
so pleased to hear your getting back to some sort of normality after what sounds like a horrendous experience for you and your family.Â
i wish you all the best in your continues recovery, and glad to have you back!
Welcome back Vincent @vincent-mod !!!
Really happy that your health has improved so much in the past couple of months and that your therapy is now working so well for you. Wish you a continued recovery with more energy and strength going forward !
Mabula
@szumi Yeah, things definitely are improving, my former boss is now also part of research that is more personalized medication, based on your own cells. Very cool, but not yet available. I hope in due time I can test that. 🙂 Thanks!
@andybooth Thanks Andy and everyone! Happy to be here.
Wow - That's great to hear! Congrats on your recovery and new lease on life. 👍 👍 👍Â
Welcome back, don't overdo it!
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The custom treatments in the works these days are exciting! I work in the veterinary field, the custom cancer immunotherapies coming out the pasr few years are incredible to hear about!
Dear Vincent.
I am new (both as customer and here in the forum), but while browsing through the forums here, I read about your fate.
Good to hear that you are about to recover - and I wish you all the best, "press my thumbs" (as we say in German) and feel with you. Please - do not overengineer, try to go with the flow.
All the best.
Michael
PS: Astrofest - was it this exhibition: https://europeanastrofest.com/ ?
@michaelacg Vielen dank! Mentally I'm pretty much back to normal, better even I would say as I probably have been sick for a bit longer than I noticed. But I will watch myself of course. 🙂
And yes, that was the Astrofest we visited a couple of times.
I'm so happy to learn that you're back, Vincent! Onwards and upwards, I keep my fingers crossed for you!
