Astro Panel 2027 – Ultimate plugin for Landscape and Astrophotography for Adobe Photoshop CC

Astro Panel 2027 11.4.0 · Updated 15 October 2026

Astro Panel 2027 – All-in-One Plugin for Adobe Photoshop

Astro Panel 2027 is a complete Photoshop ecosystem for landscape photography, night photography, Milky Way, star trails and deep-sky image processing. More than 100 professional tools bring editing, masks, color, native image stacking, astronomical file handling and AI-assisted processing into one connected interface.

Version 11.2.0 introduces production technology derived from Fusion Lab 2026 RC4 directly inside Photoshop. The new native Fusion Core processes demanding astronomical workflows while Astro Panel keeps every result visible, editable and under your control.

New in Astro Panel 2027 11.4.0

Astro Detail — Camera Raw sharpening and noise control

Astro Detail opens automatically after Fusion AI Denoise, or independently from ASTRO DETAIL in Fusion → Extra. Refine sharpening and noise reduction in a compact interface inside the panel.

• Ten controls in three sections: Sharpening Amount, Radius, Detail and Masking; Luminance Noise Reduction, Detail and Contrast; Color Noise Reduction, Detail and Smoothness. Luminance Contrast defaults to 50.
• Responsive preview: enabled on opening, updated when sliders are released, with unchanged results reused. The compact interface stays open during preview.
• Clear values: numeric values remain visible, including zero, with formatted decimals.
• RESET, CANCEL and APPLY: cancel with Esc. Processing uses a copy and preserves the starting layer.
• Predictable output: after APPLY, the result is rasterized, named Astro Detail, made visible and selected. The Photoshop Layers panel is hidden during the operation and restored on closing.
• Five interface languages: Italian, English, French, Spanish and German.

More reliable adjustment dialogs

• Reworked the complete Basic Adjustments workflow, from temporary-document creation to transferring the result.
• Extended temporary-document workflow handling to Colors, Defects, Noise, Hot Pixel, Recovery, Sharpness, Contrast, Orton, Glow, Saturate, N-HDR, D&B, Vignette and Finalize.
• Corrected result transfer by flattening the temporary document, copying the result and pasting it into the original document. Actual document IDs replace recorded references and window-order dependencies.
• Temporary documents close only after a verified transfer. Improved synchronization between slider updates, preview and APPLY.
• Added protection against duplicate openings and stale windows. Improved Layers-panel restoration and error reporting.

Targeted fixes

• HSL: fixed a possible circular block in the dialog-opening handler.
• Colors: removed an untargeted delete command during mask creation.
• Hot Pixel: corrected the handler reference that prevented temporary-document creation.
• Noise, Sharpness and Contrast: corrected handler references during slider updates.
• Contrast: corrected mask handling and the second temporary calculation document.
• H-Alpha, SII and OIII: fixed premature window removal during closing.
• Fusion AI Denoise and Background: avoid unnecessary result movement when the layer is already at the top.

Update package: Astro Panel 2027 11.4.0 CCX plugin, Fusion Core 11.4.0 installer for Windows x64, and Fusion Runtime 11.4.0 installer for macOS Apple Silicon. Install the CCX plugin first, then the installer for your system, following the included English or Italian instructions.

Native Fusion tools included

Fusion Sky Stack – new native RC4-derived engine

Calibrate, register and integrate RAW, FITS, TIFF and XISF images with the native FusionStackCore engine. Lights, Darks, Bias and Flats have dedicated loading areas, counters and metadata summaries. Camera Raw can develop RAW Lights and Flats with their real XMP sidecars before calibration and stacking.

• Camera-native white-balance multipliers and optional XMP white balance
• Linear highlight protection and profiled 16-bit output
• Adaptive asinh auto-stretch with controlled sky background and highlight headroom
• Exact disk-backed tiled Median with fixed memory usage for large 100–200 frame batches
• Metal acceleration on supported Apple systems with compatibility fallback

Open astronomical FITS files in Photoshop

The new Fusion > Extra workspace opens .fit, .fits and .fts files—including multiple files—directly as Photoshop documents.

• Robust Auto STF based on median/MAD statistics
• Fusion Lab’s PixInsight-compatible MTF rendering
• Linked RGB channels for balanced color visualization
• Lossless profiled 16-bit output or Linear 32-bit mode that preserves Float32 scientific values

Astro Background Extractor AI

Fusion Lab’s native background-extraction pipeline replaces the legacy Photoshop-only automatic DBE action. ONNX V12 global correction and V13 guarded tiled refinement remove uneven illumination and broad color gradients while preserving the original document. The result returns as a visible Astro Background Extractor AI layer with an optional hidden background-model layer.

Starless / Stars Only

The production Dark Star v2.1c C/ONNX engine creates two non-destructive layers: a visible Starless result and a Stars Only layer for Screen recomposition. A dedicated control modal adds live contrast, luminosity, Boost and Astro Dynamic Stretch adjustments before collecting the complete result into one editable Photoshop group.

Fusion AI Denoise

The optimized Fusion Lab 2026 RC4 denoise model is now available in Fusion > Extra. Dynamic 256 × 256 tiles are processed in batches for substantially faster full-resolution inference while preserving the RC4 result. DirectML acceleration is used on supported Windows GPUs and Core ML acceleration on supported Apple systems. Strength, detail recovery, star, structure and color protection remain fully adjustable, with the result returned as a dedicated non-destructive Photoshop layer.

Astro Selective Color and Green Cast

The Color & Gradients section now includes two new focused tools:

• Astro Selective Color – control Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black across Reds, Yellows, Greens, Cyans, Blues, Magentas, Whites, Neutrals and Blacks. Includes Milky Way and Deep Sky profiles plus two persistent custom slots.
• Green Cast – remove unwanted green contamination with Fusion Lab’s HLVG-style SCNR Average Neutral method, adjustable Amount and live Photoshop preview.

Native reliability and a cleaner Extra workflow

FITS opening, Astro Background Extractor AI, Starless / Stars Only and Fusion AI Denoise are consolidated inside Fusion > Extra. Native progress reporting, shared duplicate-run protection, automatic temporary-file cleanup and recovery of stale workspaces keep long processing jobs safer. The new tools and interface labels are localized in English, Italian, French, Spanish and German.

Complete Photoshop workflow

• More than 100 professional tools for landscape, night and astrophotography
• Basic Adjustments for exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, temperature, tint, vibrance and saturation
• Advanced Color & Cast correction, Astro Selective Color and Green Cast
• Noise reduction, hot-pixel removal, sharpening, recovery, Orton, Glow, Finalize and N-HDR
• Luminosity, color and saturation masks with targeted Photoshop adjustments
• Fusion workflows for long exposure, HDR, N-HDR, panorama, focus stacking, star trails, Milky Way and deep-sky stacking
• Fusion Extra with FITS, Astro Background Extractor AI, Starless / Stars Only and Fusion AI Denoise
• Export tools for web resizing and watermarking
• One license key usable on up to three devices

Price

Current price: €69,90 instead of €109. Existing Astro Panel 2027 customers receive version 11.4.0 as an included update.

Compatibility

Compatible with Adobe Photoshop CC 2022–2027 on Windows 10/11, macOS Intel and Apple Silicon M1, M2, M3, M4 and M5. Native AI acceleration depends on the operating system and supported hardware; CPU fallbacks remain available where specified.

Astro Panel 2027 is not just a plugin. It is a connected creative and computational imaging system designed to take your photographs from source files to a refined Photoshop result with faster workflows, professional control and non-destructive AI-assisted tools.