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 shoot with a Sony DSLM and in the calibration images some are in portrait mode and some in landscape.
Many thanks
Hi, I moved your question to a topic, you can create a topic by going to the forum of choice (like "general") and then on top there is a button "add topic".
So, rotation doesn't influence stacking, APP will register the frames and detect the rotation. If that doesn't work for any reason, you can select "flip descriptors in X/Y" in tab 4.
great, thanks for the help Vincent,
a question I still have there, in my posting I noticed that my nickname is displayed, this is a bit embarrassing, can I delete or change this?
I'm really sorry for taking your time for something like that
haha no worries, I removed it. 🙂 It's fine really as many have different handles like that. Not sure if you can change that, do you want to do that?
Hi Vincent,
honestly... spookytomato is my gamer tag when in playing Battlefield, I don't know what I was thinking when I entered that name.
But yes, I would like to change it if there is a possibility.
just take my real name, Francesco Galizia, that makes me feel a bit more grown up here in the forum 🤣 .
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Thanks again
That's totally fine, I changed it (you can also do this yourself when you go to your own profile).
Hello Vincent,
thank you for your help, I changed my nickname in the "Profile", I tried yesterday but it didn't work, but today it worked.
Best regards
Oh that's great! I did it yesterday as well but an error cropped up afterwards trying to access your profile. Anyway, glad it did work this time. 🙂
