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.
Hi
I have encountered this problem while processing .CR2 raw files
Its a set of photo of the moonset, so i want to disable star analysis and registration, doing only normalization and integration of the max value.
I can do normalization, but after that APP freeze.
From the console it seemt that APP goes in "busy state" and turn off buttons. After selecting "console save output" APP enable all the button, but performing again any operation bring APP again into this "busy state"
I am using beta38 and i have processed whit this release a lot of other deep sky images without any problem, and with beta37 i was able to do the same exact workflow (no star register, only normalization and integration) on another sets of lunar images.
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02:12:33 - SWITCH APPLICATION BUSY STATE : entering busy state...
02:12:33 - SWITCH APPLICATION BUSY STATE : entering long task...
02:12:33 - SWITCH APPLICATION BUSY STATE : not disabling image viewer mouse listener...
02:12:33 - SWITCH APPLICATION BUSY STATE : removing image from image viewer...
02:12:33 - SWITCH APPLICATION BUSY STATE : buttons are turned off.
02:12:34 - SWITCH APPLICATION BUSY STATE : disabling frame list table
02:12:34 - PROJECTION: reference frame found: IMG_6918.CR2
02:15:00 - FILE/DIRECTORY CHOOSER : starting default file/directory chooser
02:15:00 - SWITCH APPLICATION BUSY STATE : no change in busy state
02:15:00 - FILE/DIRECTORY CHOOSER : launching file/directory chooser
02:15:03 - FILE/DIRECTORY CHOOSER : received file/directory
02:15:04 - SWITCH APPLICATION BUSY STATE : restoring imageviewer zoom factor to 1.00
02:15:04 - SWITCH APPLICATION BUSY STATE : restoring imageviewer splitpane position to 0.21
02:15:04 - SWITCH APPLICATION BUSY STATE : exiting busy state...
02:15:04 - SWITCH APPLICATION BUSY STATE : no need to restart image viewer mouse listener...
02:15:04 - SWITCH APPLICATION BUSY STATE : buttons are turned on.
02:15:05 - SWITCH APPLICATION BUSY STATE : enabling frame list table
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