June 24 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta46 has been released !
Improved internal memory configuration (lower ! memory usage), fixed beta45 startup issue, fixed Set Save Directory & 2-panel mosaics.
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 fellow Astrophotographers,
after moving from the city to the suburb I am now happy to image broadband targets again. This is around 5 hours from my new garden. I was only able to image M33 before it hit it's peak and I think the resolution took a hit because of that. The change of correctors shows a work in progress. The Schmidt Newtonian never got a dedicated Corrector for it's remaining Coma and astigmatism and I am still figuring out the spacing after 2 years. The Paracorrs Illumination is much better than the Maxfield's. Both coma correctors work at around 5mm less of spacing between corrector and sensor right now. CS,Â
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Acquisition details:
- Meade SN8
- NEQ 6 pro
- Sony A7rIIa
- Mgen II
- acquisition date 3rd of September in Sankt Augustin - Germany
- TS-MAxfield Coma Corrector 0.95XÂ
- 67 x 2 min lights
- 8 x flat
- 20 x darks
- 25 x bias
- acquisition date 8th of September in Sankt Augustin - Germany
- ParaCorr PLU 1.15X
- 39 x 5 min lights
- 24 x flats
- 20 x darks
- 25 x bias
Post processing steps:
- Stacked in APP with all auto settings except for dynamic distortion correction turned on
- remove light pollution in APP
- star color calibration in APP
- worked on colors in Lightroom and used eliptical luminance masked adjustments to tame the background
- starsize reduction in Photoshop with starmask created with threshhold adjustment layer on top of difference layer of the image and a descratched version of the image. The actual star size reduction was done with a minmum filter.
- final touch ups and cropping in Lightroom
Tip; open the image in a new tab, it shows the full uploaded resolution.
Very nice! I see what you mean with the slightly stretched stars in the corners, but I have to say.. that's on the professional tweaking level already. 🙂 So great to be able to move to darker places, I totally get that. When I lived in NZ and now in Denmark (on a dark island), it makes for all the difference.
Thanks for sharing!
