UPDATE FROM MABULA
I have had a very rough 2 months unfortunately health wise. I was struck 3x in a row with bacterial infections. The second infection occurred after a routine hospital checkup and I became very sick. I had to rest and take a lot of antibiotics. Once I was recovering and restarting work 1 month ago, I again became sick. The infection was not yet gone, so even more antibiotics and rest was needed. Needless to say, it took a lot of my energy and I needed a lot of rest.
Finally, the infection is really gone and my energy is coming back step-by-step now and I have started work again. I am terribly sorry to have kept you waiting for support. I will address all outstanding questions and e-mails step-by step and will be on the forum daily from today.
APP 2.0.0-beta47 will come soon as well, a lot of work was already completed before I became very ill, so the release is also nearly ready for you. Beta47 will be much faster actually. Many workflows will be more than 2x faster, mosaics can even be 10x faster than before because registration really received a major boost... all compared to beta46. Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
As I mentioned in a previous post I am planning an all-sky mosaic. I know that APP has some really good mosaic capabilities - for narrow field mosaics - but my project has two curveballs:
(1) Will APP be able to handle landscape features on the horizon? Also clouds in the sky - especially clouds that move between images?
(2) Will APP be able to handle the defects of widefield lenses - namely distortion of the frame and distortion (actually enlongation) of star images near the corners?
I will be using a 24mm lens - maybe I should crop the images to remove the star distortions. Maybe I should reproject the images into a more rectilinear shape.
