Apr 14 2026: Google Pay, Apple Pay & WeChat Pay added as payment options
Apr 12 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta41 has been released !
It has a major performance boost of 30-50% over 2.0.0-beta39 from calibration to integration, for mosaics even faster! We extensively optimized many critical parts of APP. All has been tested to guarantee correct optimizations. Drizzle and image resampling is much faster for instance, those modules have been completely rewritten. Much less memory usage. LNC 2.0 has been released which works much better and faster. Improved Outlier Rejection with LN 2.0 rejection. macOS CMD+A works now in file chooser ! And more...
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.
First of all, my hat is off to all of those at Aries who have made beta-41 so fast and efficient. I am amazed at how much faster it runs as compared to earlier versions. Well done!
I have a question and potential bug (or user error) when attempting to stack comets near dawn, when there are precious few stars peeking through the morning sky. I imaged the comet Saturday morning April 18 2026. APP Star Analysis indicated 8-20 stars available depending upon the frame - a very low star count, I know. When I forged ahead to Registration using Comet mode or Normal mode, it completed 35 of 36 registration tasks and just hung there. For hours. In Comet Mode, it never even moved on to selecting the comet nucleus.
Am I doing something incorrect, process-wise? Is this too few stars for APP to even attempt it? Or is this a potential software issue? This may not be the world's best comet data, but I'd like to see what I can make of it. At the very least, it would be useful to get a warning error if this is something APP cannot complete. I attach a screen shot and logs. Thank you for your consideration and keep up the excellent work!
Regards, Martin JordanÂ
San Diego, California
