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.
Hello Mabula and others. The subject has already been dealt with, but unfortunately I don't understand it correctly!
I noticed that since 1.082 the function "remove light pollution" in 2) Calibrate no longer (?) Works. In the previous version I clicked on the function and the annoyingly familiar "glow" of my ZWO ASI 178mm was gone. Now - in 1.082 - the glow cannot be removed. I have not yet loaded the latest version 1.083, but I suspect that it is not related to my problem or that it solves it, right?
Can you please help me?
I have of course seen that the "Remove Light Pollution" button is available in 9) Tools "and - if I have seen it correctly - you can" build "a correction image with it, which can then be used as a correction image in" Integrate " ?? I have not yet made up my mind, but it would be a shame if the auto function in 2) Calibrate would no longer work !?
Stay healthy ..
Wacky
Oh, big mistake from me!: I mean the "Remove Amp-Glow", NOT Light Pollution !! Big Sorry to all !! 🙂 But the statement and question still applies.
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@wacky So, Remove Amp Glow is an option in Tab 2 and that has not changed as far as I know. How old are your darks? Did you process your lights with these darks in an older version of APP and did you see that it indeed works there?
Wouter
Hi Wouter!
I'm pretty sure that the Amp Glow Reducing worked without darks in the beginning. But I also like to admit if I've done something wrong .. The last Darks are new, but were recorded shortly after the camera was switched on. Is it possible that the amp glow on the ASI 178 cameras only comes after a certain operating time?
I will try it out, first of all thank you very much for the quick answer! .. 🙂
I haven't been "in APP" very long, but I'm already a passionate fan! :-)) And the extremely good automatic functions "prevent" from reading deeper into the matter ... 🙂
Dear Wilfried @wacky,
The Adaptive Pedestail/ reduce Amp-Glow function in 2) Calibrate, will only work/be applied when darks/MasterDark(s) are used to calibrate your lights. So it never worked without darks.
If you create darks for a camera like the ASI178, you need to make sure that the darks match the light frames for
- exposure time
- sensor gain
- sensor offset
- sensor temperature
If any of these do not match the characteristics of the lights, then amp-glow probably will not be removed completely. This is because Amp-Glow is a non-linear signal. You can only calibrate it out perfectly if the darks properly match the light frames 😉
Since the Amp-Glow is non-linear, you will see indeed, that for example a 60 second exposure will show very little Amp-Glow and a 120second exposure would all of sudden show more than 2x the amount of Amp-Glow, perhaps 4x as much. That means that it works non-linearly.
Mabula
Thank you, Mabula. Then I had the "wrong thing on the screen", apparently I used Darks before. You never stop learning; but that's nice too 🙂
It's my life's motto! I love learning. Work though... 😉
