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 forum!
I am the new, proud owner of APP.
I have 2 questions:
Can you somehow copy and cut the "tooltips" so that I can have them translated?
My english is very limited.
Since there is apparently no manual that describes all parameters and I do not
understand the English in the tooltips, I am very frustrated because I do not
know what I am actually doing!
Greetings Andy
(translated with Google)
Addendum:
Mabula insures in individual postings,
Using APP is easy, I believe him too,
but it would be nice if you also understood
the individual processes, so you knew what
you were doing.
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Hi Andreas,
Sorry that the tooltips are not much help, what language do you speak? Mabula is working on a manual, also in English, but maybe if I speak your language I can help you along via email? vincent@astropixelprocessor.com
Hello Vincent!
My mother tongue is German, so Mabula has already contacted me.
The problem is that I can't copy the tooltips with the mouse like in other programs
to then get them from e.g. To have Google translate.
Unfortunately I didn't have English at school.
Greetings Andy
Ah ok, danke schon Andy. Ich spreche es ein bisschen, aber ich denke Mabula kan Ihnen dabei helfen. Viel gluck! 😉
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Vincent, Mabula,
if you are interested, I would volunteer to translate the hover-over tooltip texts to German. This would enable you to provide a german GUI in a later release
regards,
jochenÂ
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... as a kindly reminder.
If you'd like me to translate the tooltips to German, are you able to provide them in a text file or table?
Please let me know.
regards,
jochen
Yes, sorry I didn't come back to your kind request. Mabula wants to also translate the tooltips, but only after the documentation is finished, so we'll have to wait if he then still needs help with that. Thanks for the offer though!
