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,
Using 1.080, wanted to report a bug. I went into the 9)tools menu, did a couple things, like pulled out my light pollution,. I then went into batch modify. I selected a crop area and hit "crop ok" when the dialog in the middle of the screen popped up I realized that was not what I wanted to do (I have never used this part of the app before 🙂 ) and hit "cancel in the dialog modal.
The tools menu is then overlaid on top of the batch menu. See screenshot below.
Running on Mojave 10.14.6
I just tried this on MacOS Catalina and there this doesn't happen. Instead, the normal Tools menu becomes visible again.
Wouter
Mmm, Mojave is a bit old so it may be that somehow something goes wrong there with a driver? I’ll tag Mabula, @mabula-admin
Yeah in fact after I posted the above i noticed all the menus were not working properly, i had to exit out of APP to get it back to a working state.
Interesting, might be a temporary hiccup in the system maybe. If anything like this happens again, please let us know.
