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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Topic starter
May 9, 2020 20:00
Captured 8th May 2020, 99% waning moon, Bortle 6, 53°N.
Altair 66ED refractor, Altair 1.0x flattener, Altair 183C camera.
SharpCap 3.2 (gain=300, black_level=35), APP 1.079, GIMP 2.10.
150x60s lights, 50 darks, 50 flats, 50 bias.
Dave
artem reacted
May 10, 2020 13:15
Nice one, but I think it's a bit overstretched and maybe oversaturated, very dark background and the color noise pops up in the galaxies.
Topic starter
May 10, 2020 13:44
Thanks Vincent - the captured data is probably not the best, I will keep practising.
Dave
May 10, 2020 14:24
That's the best way to go forward! 🙂 Good luck.
July 31, 2020 20:33
Which Bayer pattern did you use for Debayering with the 183C please?
Topic starter
August 27, 2020 09:13
David
Capture was with SharpCap and APP debayers as RGGB with no intervention from me.
Dave
August 27, 2020 09:32
Thanks Dave - very helpful!
DJ
