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.
Captured 5th (L frames) & 6th May (RGB frames) 2020.
Equipment: Celestron AVX mount, Vixen 81s refractor, Vixen 0.67x reducer, Atik 314E camera.
Software: FITS Liberator, APP 1.079, GIMP 2.10.
Unguided, focus with Bahtinov Mask. Bortle 6. 96% and 99% waxing moon.
L 100x60s, 30 darks, 50 bias, 50 flats, bin 1x1
R 20x86s, 30 darks, 50 bias, 50 flats, bin 2x2
G 20x50s, 30 darks, 50 bias, 50 flats, bin 2x2
B 20x78s 30 darks, 50 bias, 50 flats, bin 2x2
Processed in APP as 2 sessions.
Luminance filter integration time 1h 40m, RGB filters integration 1h 47m.
Total integration = 3h 27m.
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Very nice and well done without guidance or auto-focus! Personally I would make the background lighter. It may be noisier, but to me that still looks nicer when looking at the edges of objects.
Thanks Vincent, I will have a look at that. I did re-check focus between filters in the RGB session. When weather permits, I intend to capture the same amount of data again (hopefully with less moon) to see how the object looks with 7h integration. I will post back with the results.
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