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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March 8, 2022 21:21
Astro Pixel Processor 1.083.4 (This version only exists for the windows platform, because it is a windows specific fix. Apart from the fix, the code is the same as 1.083.2 for the other platforms.)
- FIXED, LIBRAW WINDOWS COMPATIBILITY, 1.083.3 only worked on Windows 10 version 201803 so LibRaw could not be loaded on older or different Windows OS versions like Windows 7 or Windows Server 2016. This problem is now hopefully fixed.
- FIXED, LIBRAW CHARACTER ENCODING, due to changes in the new LibRaw snapshot 2021-10 on the windows platform, character encoding broke causing problems with loading images where the filename and/or filepath had non-standard English Alphabet characters like german umlauts or asian/arabian characters. This is now fully fixed, so you can now have non-standard characters again in the filepath and filename as can be seen in the following screenshot:
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