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.
Hello
This is a naive question, as usual...
I have experienced issues to have appropriate rendering on objects with large dynamic range, such as the center of Orion Nebula , for instance.
I hand up with overexposure of the central core.
I my field of skills (terrestrial photo), I would handle it by making several pictures with variable exposure time, and then combine them with an HDR rendering tool.
I think this is of course feasible with astro pictures, but I wonder if APP can handle a set of pictures with different exposures , and handle light dynamic range during the stacking process?
There is one to find out: try it and see.
I have done just this with the Orion Nebula. APP can handle sets of pictures with different exposures and the high dynamic range.
