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.
Hello to all
yesterday I bought the license and I am very excited to start with this powerful software but immediately I ran into this problem that I can not understand where I am wrong, forgive me if these are trivial questions.
Is it normal that at every start I have to reset the work folder and the fit image settings?
is it normal that the image opens in this way? see attachment
thanks in advance for your patience
Geremia
Hello to all
yesterday I bought the license and I am very excited to start with this powerful software but immediately I ran into this problem that I can not understand where I am wrong, forgive me if these are trivial questions.
Thanks for buying the software! And ask away, that's why we're here for. 😉
Is it normal that at every start I have to reset the work folder and the fit image settings?
For now, yes. We are going to implement settings to be able to set these after a restarts etc.
is it normal that the image opens in this way? see attachment
No it isn't, I see your system is fairly low on memory and such. So I wonder if it's an older system? I have seen that some of the older systems can have issues with gfx drivers and that can be solved by either fixing the driver issue or switching off the OpenGL by pressing that button on top of APP (it says OpenGL4 in green). Does that help?
@vincent-mod
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thanks Vincent for pointing me exactly to the problem, as far as the pc is concerned, it is an i7 with 1Tb SSD and 8Gb of ram, I have just ordered two 8Gb banks and with this I hope to solve the memory problem, as regards the problem of graphics, I assigned the application to the most powerful NVIDA graphics card and the problem of opening the image was magically solved.
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Thanks again Vincent
Perfect! So I assume it was using an older internal gfx driver?
@vincent-mod
this laptop has two graphics cards, an Intel HD graphic family and an NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M, the first gave me that problem, maybe a question of driver.
