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.
I just downloaded the lastest download 2.0.0 beta26 for windows 64. I've been running APP for years. I downloaded the release, unzipped it and installed it. When it launched, It now asks me for my name and license info. I don't recall it doing this on previous releases. Is it supposed to do this? Either way it looks like I need my license info so how do I get that?Â
Thanks
James
@nitesky Sit back and wait like i have been doing since a laptop crash killed my drive, i`m also waiting on a key.
I wish you luck. I remembered I have it on an older laptop I was able to copy my info from it.
@nitesky I was able to salvage the ssd drive from the laptop and bought a external case for it and have it hooked up to the new laptop but i can`t seem to get it running from there , i even looked through everything for the key with no luck ...getting all the astro programs and settings back on a new laptop are a pain , but on a good note pixinsight got my key back within 5 mins.
Look through your old emails by searching for astropixelprocessor and the license info will be their. That is what I had to do. It worked fine after that.
Apologies for not coming back to this sooner, it's always advised to keep your license info safe indeed. But usually we can get you the info quickly as well, unfortunately there have been some personal difficulties that prevented me from helping out.
I just downloaded the lastest download 2.0.0 beta26 for windows 64. I've been running APP for years. I downloaded the release, unzipped it and installed it. When it launched, It now asks me for my name and license info. I don't recall it doing this on previous releases. Is it supposed to do this? Either way it looks like I need my license info so how do I get that?Â
Thanks
James
Hi @nitesky,
I can see that you were able to activate your license last week so I assume that everything is okay now?
To explain what happened, the 2.0.0-beta26 had an additional fix in the application security controlling the activated computers for a license. Users with an older APP version like 1.083 or older could have been affected by a bug in the computer activation and thus installing beta26 fixed that by re-activating on the computer. It should not happen anymore with subsequent releases.
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