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.
[Solved] Problem: Green color cast after "calibrate star colors"
I have illustrated my problem in the picture below. After calibrating the star colors, the colors are completely desaturated and the picture gets a greenish tint.
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As you can see in the example picture the colors look much better before the calibration. Do you have an idea what went wrong?
Is it possible to skip the "calibrate star color" step?
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I have loaded the stack into a drive folder for you. You can try it yourself 🙂
There is a small shift ( i think du the Optolong filter) to the green side, if you open the star calibration tool you need to move the Magenta / green constant slider to the - this will move the green cast to the magenta side ( from green to white).
See screenshot for the settings i used.
I did make in a few minutes this version of you're data, maybe a bit to the red / magenta side but i did it on a small laptop screen.
There is a small shift ( i think du the Optolong filter) to the green side, if you open the star calibration tool you need to move the Magenta / green constant slider to the - this will move the green cast to the magenta side ( from green to white).
See screenshot for the settings i used.
I did make in a few minutes this version of you're data, maybe a bit to the red / magenta side but i did it on a small laptop screen.
An alternative method is to apply HSL selective color after calibrate star colors. In you case, I try remove cyan from green, reduce cyan in yellow, remove red and yellow from cyan, and increase magenta in red. Just play around with these colors!
