Improved internal memory controls (much more stable and faster on big datasets), fixed CPU image viewer, fixed Narrowband extraction demosaic algortihms.
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.
3) Kill background color noise, select ALL pixels from 0-background + 1*noise and check the selected pixels with the show color selection button :
The weak H-alpha emmisions will not be harmed by this selection as can be seen in the mask :-). Those faint signals are visually above the noise level and that is represented by the background +1*noise threshold. Simply set saturation to -100 which kills the color noise on the selected pixels.
I just learned how to remove background color noise. Thanks, but I have a little problem. Mabula explains that you have to move the saturation slider to -100. Is that only possible in beta 2.00? I can't install it because it doesn't run under MacOs Catalina (10.15.7) and in my version of APP (1.083.2), the saturation slider only goes from 0.00 to 0.50 and even if I move it to 0.00, I don't see any change in the background... Am I doing something wrong? Thanks in advance.
3) Kill background color noise, select ALL pixels from 0-background + 1*noise and check the selected pixels with the show color selection button :
The weak H-alpha emmisions will not be harmed by this selection as can be seen in the mask :-). Those faint signals are visually above the noise level and that is represented by the background +1*noise threshold. Simply set saturation to -100 which kills the color noise on the selected pixels.
I just learned how to remove background color noise. Thanks, but I have a little problem. Mabula explains that you have to move the saturation slider to -100. Is that only possible in beta 2.00? I can't install it because it doesn't run under MacOs Catalina (10.15.7) and in my version of APP (1.083.2), the saturation slider only goes from 0.00 to 0.50 and even if I move it to 0.00, I don't see any change in the background... Am I doing something wrong? Thanks in advance.
I'm also a "barely scratch the surface" APP user and just read this entire thread. I'm only doing EAA and mostly with an OSC and many times with a narrowband filter. Either an IDAS-NBZ or Antlia ALP-T highspeed.
The only workflow I've used so far is to load a single light which is a 16-bit FITS file live stack output from SharpCap. I'll then use the Tools to rotate, crop and light pollution/calibrate. Then I save a TIFF that I further process in Photoshop.
I would like to better understand how to implement an Ha-OIII workflow from a single narrowband light frame. I have a sample file for Sh 2-229 that might be useful in helping me better understand things.
