UPDATE FROM MABULA
I have had a very rough 2 months unfortunately health wise. I was struck 3x in a row with bacterial infections. The second infection occurred after a routine hospital checkup and I became very sick. I had to rest and take a lot of antibiotics. Once I was recovering and restarting work 1 month ago, I again became sick. The infection was not yet gone, so even more antibiotics and rest was needed. Needless to say, it took a lot of my energy and I needed a lot of rest.
Finally, the infection is really gone and my energy is coming back step-by-step now and I have started work again. I am terribly sorry to have kept you waiting for support. I will address all outstanding questions and e-mails step-by step and will be on the forum daily from today.
APP 2.0.0-beta47 will come soon as well, a lot of work was already completed before I became very ill, so the release is also nearly ready for you. Beta47 will be much faster actually. Many workflows will be more than 2x faster, mosaics can even be 10x faster than before because registration really received a major boost... all compared to beta46. Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
A big hug for Mabula and crew!
Really great to see this. I am a longtime APP user and even while I use a range of other software as well (tools in the toolbox), I exclusively use APP for calibration, integration and mosaic building. It just works (for me, anyway).
I have tried the star reducer tool on a few of my images and it works really well. With some tweaking of parameters it gives very nice and clean results. Removing the stars gives a bit more rough patches, but complete removal is not always needed.
Now, towards @Mabula-Admin, if I may suggest a new year's resolution for you: Ban the word "soon" from your communication. Really, it is a ill defined concept which creates wildly different expectations. And mostly the wrong expectations.
Great stuff. Keep on pushing!
Thank you very much @annehouw 😊 ! That is highly appreciated 😉
Glad to hear that the Star Reducer works nicely on your images !
Star Removal indeed is still not to my satisfaction yet, so indeed it needs a bit more work still. On some images it works really well but as soon as you have many clustered stars... it becomes complicated to give a good background reconstruction containing the noise patterns of the surrounding star area. The noise patterns need to be there, otherwise it looks artificial quickly.
We are definitely planning for less "soon" communication. And more action going forward as well!
