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,
here my suggestions:
1) When importing pictures, the programm offers a quite unconventional window which does not support copy/pasting the path to the pics I would like to import. Navigation to the quite deep structure is cumbersome. Why dont you offer the conventional window which is used in lots of other software packages? This would help a lot.
2) A button somewhere in the GUI in order to open the working directory would be nice. This would also accelerate the process of finding the "final" file for further improvement in photoshop or Affinity Photo. Alternatively, a right click on the output files (FITS, TIFF, etc.) which offers "open directory" would be an option.
3) Cropping (batch modify) does not offer the option to keep the original width to height ratio. Sometimes, this missing feature is the only reason for me to re-open the final TIF file in my RAW converter in order to restore the original ratio. Furthermore, in the standard-settings of my RAW converter, there is a very slight denoising applied. This leads to ugly denoising artefacts in my final denoising procedure with Neat Image - another reason why I would be nice to offer "original ratio cropping" in APP.
Regards,
Jens
@tschens Thanks for the suggestions. We will pass them on to Mabula.Â
