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.
I am fascinated from this nice piece of software. After a few hours of playing around I ended my trial period and bought it. Currently I am developing all my old deep Sky pics once again, finding out that they become much better with Astro Pixel Processor compared to my previous work with various other software packages.
This is the Orion Nebula, shot with Olympus OMD-EM1 on a Startracker Adventurer. Panasonic 100-300 Zoom @300 mm, ISO 800, F6.3, 60 sec. 13 Pics, only light frames (in-Camera noise reduction activated), stacked and stretched with APP, denoised with Neat Image. Star filter effect added with Affinity Photo.
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Excellent to hear you're getting better results, that's always a good indication for APP's ability to make life a bit easier and getting better results. 🙂
