June 24 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta46 has been released !
Improved internal memory configuration (lower ! memory usage), fixed beta45 startup issue, fixed Set Save Directory & 2-panel mosaics.
May 27 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta45 has been released !
Fully Multi-Threaded LNC, many improvements for the registration engine, platform upgrade, and further tuning of internal memory consumption and memory release back to OS.
Apr 14 2026: Google Pay, Apple Pay & WeChat Pay added as payment options
Update on the 2.0.0 release & the full manual
We are getting close to the 2.0.0 stable release and the full manual. The manual will soon become available on the website and also in PDF format. Both versions will be identical and once released, will start to follow the APP release cycle and thus will stay up-to-date to the latest APP version.
Once 2.0.0 is released, the price for APP will increase. Owner's license holders will not need to pay an upgrade fee to use 2.0.0, neither do Renter's license holders.
Hi!
i see so many colourful images with blues, yellows and reds however with all my images I just see red and it’s beginning to make me see red! Still a beginner with APP. Is there a way of getting more different colours out of my Redcat 51, zwo 533mc with optolong l-extreme? Old image attached. Currently working on elephants trunk. Cheers!
There are different ways to go about this, but you should first understand what your filter is doing. It is designed to block out light pollution and only allow light through at 2 narrow bandwidths where OIII and HA wavelengths reside. This blocks out unwanted light pollution and enhances the HA and OIII regions. If you are like me and understand better with visual representations, then the first image displays the visible spectrum and at what wavelength colors reside. The second image shows where on that scale the L-Extreme allows light to pass through. Keep in mind that of the visible mass in the universe, Hydrogen makes up about 73% of that.
Now for those other colors you have options. I mostly capture with a monochrome camera and filters now and the best way to mimic that is to capture your L-Extreme data as per usual and then also capture some unfiltered data or maybe use an L-Pro if you are in an area with light pollution. Load up the data in APP with multi-channel/filter check marked and in tab 0 select HA-OIII extract Ha and run the integration then after it finishes select HA-OIII extract OIII and run it again. You could then integrate again for the Empty/L-Pro and then separate the RGB and combine them all using combine RGB and adjust the sliders to get the look you are after. You can also just capture the L-Extreme data and extract the separate Ha and OIII and then also run the integrate a third time after selecting HA-OIII mono in tab 0 and using that as the SII channel for combining in the Hubble Palates. The best way to learn this is to click on the tutorials section of the forums and the top 2 pinned posts will walk you through far better than I can. They are Ha + OIII Dual Narrowband Workflow and Combining RGB with Ha and OIII. The second is for the L-Enhance, but the method is still the same.
Wow!! Huge thanks for the detailed response! A lot to learn here but you’re response gives me hope. Many thanks for taking the time to respond. Greatly appreciated. Best regards, Rob
Hi @robster,
Where you able to get more colors in your images now? Or do you need more assistance?
@minroadkill, thanks for the great help here 😉 !
Hi! Yes, thanks! I’m still at the rock banging stage with this software but slowly but surely I seem to be getting somewhere. A basic question if I may? As I dive deeper into APP I’m asking myself why do I have Adobe Lightroom? Is there really any benefit for me other than having less money each month?
