MAY 4 2026: APP 2.0.0-beta44 has been released !
New improved internal memory controls should now work on all computers
May 1 2026: APP 2.0.0-beta43 has been released !
Improved internal memory controls (much more stable and faster on big datasets), fixed CPU image viewer, fixed Narrowband extraction demosaic algortihms.
Apr 29 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta42 has been released !
New improved Normalization engine, Fixed random crashes in integration, fixed RGB Combine & Calibrate Star Colors, fixed Narrowband extraction algorithms, new development platform with performance gains, bug fixes in the tools, etc...
Apr 14 2026: Google Pay, Apple Pay & WeChat Pay added as payment options
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 everyone. I am imaging and processing Messier objects in APP from various sources including remote images I pay for. I search the Hubble Legacy Archive for suitable or interesting images to process. I would like your observation and opinion to answer my question in the topic title.
The image below is a standard wide field image of M36 to start the zoomed in path I will take.
The next image below is a Hubble image I downloaded of a much smaller portion of M36 taken in three wavelengths. There were a few hot pixels I wanted to clean up in certain areas one of which is the brightest star in the lower right of the image.
When I zoomed in to bit edit a few pixels I was surprised at what I initially thought was a distant, dim star just above the bright star that now looked like a ringed planetary nebula (see the image below). Many of you are much more expert at astrophotography processing than I so the question is is this a distant, faint nebula or an imaging artifact? Thanks in advance for any replies. Paul
@ah_astro Thanks for that info as I didn't know that site existed. I did not get a match on that site.
But I thought the Hubble Legacy Site should have the coordinates. I looked at the description of the image on the Hubble site and I did see the RA and Dec within a few minutes of the given coordinates of Messier 36. Now all I need is a way to look at those coordinates like on the Sloan Sky Survey or some such site.
Now I will ask if anyone knows of an all sky site where I can plug in my coordinates and retrieve information of the objects in that area of the sky? Thanks in advance.
