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, this question is so basic that I'm sure that I'm doing something wrong or overlooking something obvious, but I can't figure out what it is.
After Star Analysis, I like to sort my subs usually based on Quality. So I select "sort on Quality" and it does that. However, the quality tab is way over on the right, and not visible in the default view. I can resize columns, or even move the Quality tab over to the left so that I can see it, but the moment I do something with the data, such as deselect a sub for example, the column order reverts to original and I can't see the Quality column again.
There must be some way of reordering the columns so that they stay reordered?
Thanks,
- Rich
Dear Rich @rkmvca,
The order of the changed/moved columns is not remembered and not saved in APP yet... So each time the frame list panel is rebuilt with new data/analytics, it reverts back to the default column ordering.
I have made a note of this, to fix this going forward 😉 likely in the next stable release which is about saving/loading settings and projects. So this should be part of that.
Mabula
Thanks for the response and the upcoming fix!
Hi @rkmvca,
This will be fixed in the next APP release, the column order can be adjusted and will remain that way whenever the framelist gets an update 😉 I will also make sure it is remembered between restarts of APP.
Mabula
Sounds great, thanks!
