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.
Hi !
If i have for example Milkyway and little foreground on the bottom, can APP also stack those photos or just photos where is no foreground ?
I'm using Sequator application for this job, where i can "freeze the ground" and select just sky, but APP does a lot more nice job for sky.
There are 2 photos, first is just stack of 24single photos shoot with Sequator. Second, milkyway is stacked with App and foreground is added separatly.
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Not this nice no, we are however thinking about making this possible.
Not this nice no, we are however thinking about making this possible.
No problem ! Yea, it would be very nice. As you can see in second photo, Milkyway details are much better, after stacking in APP, foreground was added after.Â
First photo is stacked with Sequator and then edited.
So we have 50% of it already! 🙂 Nice result indeed.
So we have 50% of it already! 🙂 Nice result indeed.
Thanks, yea, true 🙂
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Back in September of 2020, a "freeze foreground" capability was about 50% done per this thread. Has it been fully implemented? I'd be a willing beta-tester if not. Â
Kind Regards from San Diego!
No, that's not what I meant, I meant the stacking of the deepsky object. We have the feature to get a nice foreground on the development-list, but this has not a big priority at this moment.
@vincent-mod
Thank you for the update. I know there are a great many wide-field astrophotographers that would welcome something other than Sequator, or having to do some sort of composite blending in Photoshop.
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I know this is an old topic - is APP capable to handle images with foreground now?Â
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Hi Bikram,
I will try to add an option in 3) analyse stars to exclude the landscape area from being analysed ;-), i have added it to my issue list.
Mabula
Hi! Any news on this? This feature would make me buy APP.
Is there any news about the new update?
