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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March 4, 2022 02:03
This image was taken with an Astro-physics 130GTX @ f/4.4 and a QHY268c color camera through an L-Extreme Dual Band filter in a Bortle 8-9 zone (north Seattle). About 60 exposures of 90 seconds each. This combination is great for getting good results in a light polluted sky.
I used the Extract Ha and Extract O3 algorithms and then color combined with the HOO2 preset which I loved for this object. I also used HSL to desaturate the background and saturate the main colors of the nebula. Post processing was done in Photoshop with Photoshop and Topaz Denoise.
Wayne
