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.
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May 6, 2017 11:53
Astro Pixel Processor 1.033-5
- FIXED CANON MakerNote metadata, Now the CR2Loader should be much quicker (for a Canon 6D 2-3 seconds quicker) and the memory consumption is drastically reduced. Maybe this is also related to the problem of Kees on Linux Mint...
- FIXED for NIKON Makernote metadata as well, NEFLoader is now quicker, about 0,5 seconds. Less memory footprint as well.
- FIXED license verification issues, issues arise when a computer has multiple mac addresses of which some are virtual. MacOS is problematic ( Marc, Vincent, Mabula)
- FIXED APP crashes fast on MInt Linux, using the 8GB deb package. (Ubuntu seems to work fine though with this package). (Kees)
- FIXED trim String of license input for license activation (Rob)
- CHANGED Set default for images to stack to 100% (Mabula)
- CHANGED Set default for LNC to off (Mabula)
- FIXED File chooser should always open at latest directory, default behaviour for all apps? (Yves)
- FIXED Behaviour of save registered frames:Â will alway save registered frames in full composition mode. So all pixels of all frames to be registered will be taken into account. All registered frames will have the same dimensions.
- FIXED bug when star analysis starts where first light is unselected, gave no Star analysis results for selected lights.
- FIXED A reference can only be selected when it is star analysed (Rob, Mabula)
- FIXED Normalization won't run when ref is disabled on first line of file list. Solved by letting APP choose the best available registered light for normalization based on the quality parameter after registration(Rob, Mabula)
- FIXED disable save registered frames until frames are registered (Rob)
- CHANGED disable saturation preview stretch by default, because it's slower than no saturation stretch
