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.
At first - its real great to use APP for mosaics! Thanks Mabula for the good work!
https://www.astrobin.com/323251/B/
That's a very nice test mosaic astroteam !
Any plans on extending this mosaic ?
Mabula
Well, Mabula, thanks for the positive answer. It was only a test with very short (60s) single images with the new ASI294mcPro camera and an reducer for the planewave before I ended my night session. Wanted to test the possibilities of APP - and the result is real great for this short and simple investment.
Will try more mosaics with the 20" planewave at f 4.75 (unfortunatelly the weather wont at the moment...). Hope I can present some nice results in the coming times.... and I am looking forward to the new version of APP! Greetings - Günther
excellent Günther 😉
Looking forward to your results,
Mabula
