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.
I use my Atik 428ex CCD camera for DSO images.
Can you stack and then process mono CCD images in APP?
I am particularly interested to know if I can stack-register-combine and process. Narrowband Ha and OIII channels to create a Bi-Colour image of NGC7635 the Bubble nebula. I don't have this data yet. But I hope to collect it in a weeks time.
Any helpful advice would be greatly appreciated.Â
Regards
Paul A Brierley
Observing Coordinator for Macclesfield Astronomical Society.
Yes, you can, no problem at all. I can get you through the workflow if you want after you took the data and proper calibration frames.
Thank you, Vincent,
I will have some narrowband data to play with after I have been away to a Star Party in darkest Norfolk.
I will be using my Atik 428ex with two NB filters. Baader Ha and OIII and want to create a Bicolor image of the following targets.
NGC7635-NGC7023-NGC281.
I hope I can do all the stacking-processing in APP. So a tutorial would be very useful.
You can and it should be quite straightforward, a tutorial is being worked on and the video tutorials (albeit old now) still give you the general idea for exactly what you want to do here.
Thank you VincentÂ
That's very kind of you. I appreciate that.Â
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