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.
As a new user, I'm trying to understand the steps that APP does and wish to save the console output into a text file for analysis.Â
How do I do this?
I've tried using CTRL-A (on Windows) to select all the text in the console (which works) but there is no "right-click menu" to Copy it. I used CTRL-C (Windows copy) and tried pasting into a text editor but only get 10-20 lines from the start of the console.
Trying a manual "click at top and scroll down to the end" approach, I might get a few lines from somewhere else in the file.
I find it a bit disconcerting (compared to PixInsight) that the entire history of what has been done to date just disappears when I exit APP.
Or am I missing something?
A lot of the processing steps will be in the header of the files as well. But a nicer export of the console could be added I think. I'll pass this on.
Btw; Wouter just notified me it does work for him, using a Mac. I'll try it on Windows tomorrow, first have to finish some Christmas leftovers. 😉
The one thing I did notice is that it does not work well when output is being produced. But as soon as all processes are done, selecting all output with ctrl-a and copying with ctrl-c works.Â
