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.
This is my second week using APP, I borrowed a couple calibrated linear Ha .FITS files from a friend for a two- tile mosaic to try in this program. Followed the Sara Wager tutorial for mosaics and got up to the point of Registering after running Analyze Stars but the program stops and stays no stars detected. Adjusted the Analyze Stars slider across the range and reran with the same outcomes. The owner of the files says he used about 10% overlap and stitched them fine in MaximDL. Not much data is updated on these files from the Analyze function other than it measuring a FWHM range of 2.23-2.43. I know of no other adjustments I can make.
Any ideas of where things are going wrong?
Thanks.
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