Mar 28 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta40 will be released in 7 days.
It did take a long time to have the work finished on this and it will have a major performance boost of 30-50% over 2.0.0-beta39 from calibration to integration. 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 will be released which works much better and faster than LNC in it's current state. And more, all will be added to the release notes in the coming weeks...
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.
Hi,
Is there a guide somewhere that help to explain all the entities in the 'Analytical results per light frame' windows and how the interpret the (absolute) values in the file list underneath. Hopefully it will be in the 2.0 manual but if someone can point me to a forum post somewhere that would be a great help! Thanks.
Hi Tom @tvanpeer,
Thank you very much for your question. Indeed, it will all be explained in the forthcoming manual.
But for now, let me explain this already:
The abolute values always need to be judged relatively. Depending on all the different factors, telescope, camera, pixel size, exposure time, capture conditions etc... the values can and will be quite different.
So the graph shows the values relatively with a value of 1.0 being the best value of the metric.
Is there a specific metric that is unclear to you?
Mabula
