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.
Iam a newbie with APP. How can I calibrate a dslr data without darks? I have been watching tutorials, but I dont understand the workflow.
Hi @hanva,
Thank you for your question and welcome to the APP forum. My apologies for the delay in my response.
If you want to calibrate DSLR data without darks, you will need to use at least a masterbias if you are using flats as well. Are you?
(The hotpixels can be taken care of most efficiently by making a one-time BPM from a simple set of darks.)
Kind regards,
Mabula
I had a couple of occasions where I had to throw out my bias in order to integrate my hydrogen Alpha Subs. When I included it I got blank frame when I pulled it out of the mix I got it really nice image in hydrogen Alpha
Hi Greg, Probably a case of subtracting the bias pedestal twice then 😉
Next APP version 1.060 will not have that problem anymore...
Mabula
So, can someone please clarify the exact workflow of DSLR calibration without darks?
I normally calibrate with darks, flats, bias and bpm. Do I just leave the darks selection empty, or load my bias in there?
Also, do i have to dither? And which checkboxes do I need to select?
Cheers
Ok a number of questions here, some general advice;
- Always use darks when you have amp-glow, if not and you still want to remove bad-pixels, you will need at least a BPM (Bad Pixel Map) and you can leave the darks empty.
- Dithering is always advised as it removes any fixed pattern noise that might still be present and will therefore always improve your result. If you're under-sampling, dithering is even required to perform drizzling if you want that.
Dithering is done during the taking of photo's, no checkboxes needed in APP.
Ah, ok.
I have dithered in the past, but stopped recently due to mount backlash issues.
Thanks for the clarification.
Ah yes, backlash is fun isn't it. I wanted all of this to work nicely each time, so I even took apart my AZ-EQ6 and relubricated everything + changed some components. Got a nice feeling out of that for finetuning such a mount which is nice. It makes dithering and proper guiding work at least more stable. Good luck with it!
