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 đŸ™‚
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.
1. On a Mac anyway, if you click on the image viewer it is the same action as a zoom. So if you have the window in the background and then click on it you're automatically zooming. Maybe someone wants that but I'd prefer that to be a config not to zoom. Also if you're displaying the analytical graph it doesn't make sense to zoom in there (for me anyway).
2. In the image list if you click on a row and then shift click you can keep extending your selections by shift click. But if you want to reduce your selection (maybe you clicked one or two too far) it will not work. You have to re-select from the beginning.
3. It would be AWESOME to have an auto-remove (auto-delete?) option to specify remove Lights where quality < some number, RMS < some number, star shape < some number.
4. If you're going to have a click to zoom feature there should be a click to zoom out feature with a modifier key such as a shift key or alt/option.
5. Customization of the image list. Mainly in column widths and order. But it would be nice to have the option to remove certain columns that may not matter in our workflow.
6. The interface lets you accidentally select a light file for the master flat. It would be nice if master files (like MF and MD) have an internal tag to identify what they are. Then you could just click a button to say load calibration file and just pick the file and APP would then self-sort it to the right place.
On the whole 2.0 is a big improvement on 1.8 and I'm looking forward to seeing where the app goes in the future.
Thanks for the suggestions, I'll pass them on to Mabula.
Hello everyone, after installing Beta2 on a Windows 11 laptop, I noticed the following:
If you want to change the working directory, or just want to add the lights, darks, etc., the system hangs again and again for about 60-90s. Jumping around in the file browser is therefore a real game of patience. Downgrading to the latest 1.083.4 fixes the problem.
@passerati Could you create a new topic about this? This was a request for change topic. Thanks!
@vincent-mod Done đŸ™‚
