May 27 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta45 has been released !
Fully Multi-Threaded LNC, many improvements for the registration engine, platform upgrade, and further tuning of internal memory consumption and memory release back to OS.
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.
Hi Bart @bdeclerc,
Excellent, the final result looks very nice and I look the amount of H-alpha blending, it shows the active regions well in the galaxy.
Perhaps the overall colors could be a bit more reddish, so the core of M101 becomes somewhat more yellow, but I think this is very close already 😉
If you create a super-luminace form the L,R,G,B channels I would advise against using SNR for integration weights. SNR is a pretty unreliable metric due to deviating gradients between your imaging sessions. Images with bad transparancy and out-of focus images can also become false positives when you use SNR as weights. I would rather go for star shape weights, that will give you the sharpest super luminance. Or use quality weights to have a superluminance optimized for sharpness, noise and stardensity (so good transparancy/seeing) combined.
Thanks a lot for sharing 😉
Cheers,
Mabula
