MAY 4 2026: APP 2.0.0-beta44 has been released !
New improved internal memory controls should now work on all computers
May 1 2026: APP 2.0.0-beta43 has been released !
Improved internal memory controls (much more stable and faster on big datasets), fixed CPU image viewer, fixed Narrowband extraction demosaic algortihms.
Apr 29 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta42 has been released !
New improved Normalization engine, Fixed random crashes in integration, fixed RGB Combine & Calibrate Star Colors, fixed Narrowband extraction algorithms, new development platform with performance gains, bug fixes in the tools, etc...
Apr 14 2026: Google Pay, Apple Pay & WeChat Pay added as payment options
Update on the 2.0.0 release & the full manual
We are getting close to the 2.0.0 stable release and the full manual. The manual will soon become available on the website and also in PDF format. Both versions will be identical and once released, will start to follow the APP release cycle and thus will stay up-to-date to the latest APP version.
Once 2.0.0 is released, the price for APP will increase. Owner's license holders will not need to pay an upgrade fee to use 2.0.0, neither do Renter's license holders.
Hello guys/girls,
i'm working on my first mosaic. Well i'm about to finish the 1st of 4 panels, the other 3 I will make when weather clears up again. But how far do I process the mosaic?Â
My general plan is to capture and extract HA with a dual band filter (ASI294 mc pro with Optolong L-eNhance filer) and make a 4 panel mosaic in HA. Then i'm making an OSC RGB mosaic of the same target and separate R,G and B. Finally I will combine the 4 (r,g,b and HA) complete mosaics with the RGB combine tool.
My first question is, would it be better to stitch the RGB mosaic first and then, when it is complete, separate the R,G and B channel. Or is it better to split the R,G and B per panel and stitch them afterwards (so run the mosaic option in APP 3 times)?
Second, how far do I post process a panel before running the mosaic through APP? Do I, after integration of the first panel, take away any stack artefacts and/or light pollution? So I get the cleanest result when stitching all the other panels? Or do I leave it as the original integration and do the lightpollution removal at the complete end after stitching all the panels?Â
I couldn't find the answers to this on the forum and in the tutorials (since the tutorials are already awesome clean data).
Cheers,
MichelÂ
On your first question, I would say to make the panels first by processing the RGB and NB fully (make them as nice and corrected as possible), add the NB to the R, G, B, do some processing again to make it nice and save the panel as RGB and do this for each panel. Then run the mosaic and post process again in a similar way. There are multiple ways to approach this though like you mentioned. But making the data as nice as possible at each step is, I think, a good idea. It will make the data cleaner for the next step.
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