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.
Johann Elert Bode discovered this galaxy in 1774, so it is also known as Bode's Galaxy. It is located 11.6 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major and has an apparent magnitude of 6.9 what makes it one of the brightest galaxies in our nightsky. A black hole of 70 million solar masses resides at the center of M81 and is about 15 times the mass of the Milky Way’s central black hole.
In this session I figured out that my newly acquired old G11 mount performs better without guiding, so I tried it completely unguided this time, and well, we are getting closer to unleash the power of my 10" newton.
Stacked and pre-processed with APP 2.0.0-beta28 on MacStudio.
Telescope: Skywatcher 250/1200 PDS (modified)
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC-Pro
Filter: UV/IR-cut
Controller: ZWO Asiair
Mount: Losmandy G11 unguided
Exposure time: 763x 30s
