MAY 4 2026: APP 2.0.0-beta44 has been released !
New improved internal memory controls should now work on all computers
May 1 2026: APP 2.0.0-beta43 has been released !
Improved internal memory controls (much more stable and faster on big datasets), fixed CPU image viewer, fixed Narrowband extraction demosaic algortihms.
Apr 29 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta42 has been released !
New improved Normalization engine, Fixed random crashes in integration, fixed RGB Combine & Calibrate Star Colors, fixed Narrowband extraction algorithms, new development platform with performance gains, bug fixes in the tools, etc...
Apr 14 2026: Google Pay, Apple Pay & WeChat Pay added as payment options
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.
Hi guys...
I recently loaded 256 Lum frames of M31 (30 sec subs) into APP together with master dark, master flat, master bias and BMP. When star analyses was completed, the software stopps... not possible to continue. I tried to increase CPU to 12 and restarted the PC, but same result. Could it be the number of frames that is too high??
Alf J.
Not to be expected no, but it just stopped you say, it really didn't have any activity anymore that you could notice from the system? How much memory does your system have?
In the mean time you can always give it a go with just 50 frames of course.
Hi...
Many thanks for your suggestions. My system is 32Gb memory. I tried with 30 frames and that worked fine.... I guess this means that it is the system that limits the number of frames that can be processed in one batch. I shall have to split the bunch of frames in smaller batches containing ~50 frames or so...
best
AJ
Hi again...
Forgot to say that I was running ver 1.079, but have just upgraded to ver. 1.082Â and yes the program stopped completely and could not be accessed. I had to use Task manager to shut it down (although other programs ran normally)...
AJ
With 32GB that shouldn't be a problem though. I'm wondering if it indeed was stopped, maybe there was a dialog behind a window that required attention for instance? I would suggest to try again, and otherwise you can make integrations of 50-ish indeed (to get the data divided nicely) and load those results as lights again and integrate them.
Hi again...
Forgot to say that I was running ver 1.079, but have just upgraded to ver. 1.082Â and yes the program stopped completely and could not be accessed. I had to use Task manager to shut it down (although other programs ran normally)...
AJ
Ok, well I would try it again then as that should work I think.
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