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, I've been having some major problems getting clean multichannel blending results if I attempt to do all channels together at once in APP. To work around this issue I have been integrating a mosaic for each channel and registering them later in Pixinsight. The problem I am encountering now is I have a 25 panel mosaic of andromeda that cannot be registered properly in either PI or APP if I try to align each color channel mosaic.
So now I need to be able to integrate and stitch my color mosaics at together in one go in APP, because I cannot get them to register any other way. But sadly when I integrate the panels together in APP with multiple color channels, it will attempt to normalize one channel with a panel from a different frame, which creates a terrible result in the blend.
A very simple fix would be to allow per-channel normalization references so that I can get clean blends for all my color channels.
@astrofalls What version of APP are you on? If not on 2.0.0-beta6, does this problem also happen with that version?
I was on beta2, I will try to reintegrate today in beta6
