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 was struggling to combine my LRGB images, which are new to me.
After 3 failures due to some sizing error that I don't completely understand (the first time, I failed to check the multi-channel/multi-session boxes for 2 of the 4 filters, but the 2nd 2 tries, I did and still got the error), I finally got APP to stack by integrating all 4 filters from scratch simultaneously. This yielded a result, but one so bad that I actually forgot to save it! Ha.
But the final stacked image was still B&W. When you integrate each channel and all, and it combines everything, should I get some kind of color result, or do I still have to go back and combine the separate channels?
I'm guessing you have a mono camera? If so, you should be able to load them with just assigning them to the various filters. Not necessarily sessions as that is only really handy when you want to assign multiple different flats that differ between the nights. If the flats are basically the same across the sessions, you can load the L, R, G and B and assign the calibration darks/bias to all of them and the flats per filter. That should produce separate integrations per filter which are registered and normalized against each other. Does that work?
