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.
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July 29, 2022 22:53
My first mosaic with the ASI6200MM Pro on the SharpStar 20032PNT, this mosaic consists of 2 panels each with 151x60S in L, R, G and B totalling over 20 hours of exposure time.
Imaging Camera: ZWO Astronomy Cameras ASI6200MM Pro
Imaging Scope: Sharpstar Optics 20032PNT F3.2 Paraboloid Astrograph
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro
Guide Camera: ZWO Astronomy Cameras 290M
Filters: Baader Planetarium CMOS Optimised LRGB 50.4mm
Filterwheel: ZWO Astronomy Cameras 7x EFW
Focuser: Primalucelab Sesto Senso2
Observatory Control: Primalucelab Eagle4 Pro
Acquisition Software: Main Sequence Software SGPro 4
Image Clibration, Align, Stack, Mosaic: Astro Pixel Processor
Final Processing: PixInsight
Flats / Darks : 101/101
Gain: 100
Bortle: 4/5
Exposure Length: 60S
Number of exposures per filter: 151
Filters used: L, R, G, B
Number of Panels in Mosaic: 2
Astrobin Link since it's not allowing me to upload the image here: https://www.astrobin.com/full/2zhl7f/0/
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July 30, 2022 09:10
Beautiful signal, love it!
July 31, 2022 11:34
Beautiful work, Simon!
Those molecular clouds are hard features to capture properly...
One thing I'd try to work on, is perhaps make a mask for the IRIS core, and adjust it, it is a bit blown out. With your data you should have plenty of details there.
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Great work, congrats again!
Topic starter
July 31, 2022 15:39
@gideon96 Thanks, yes I knwo what you mean, I just have not had the chance to do that yet 😀
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