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. Â Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
I have moved to a dedicated cooled camera and trying to figure out exactly what steps to use to load my FITs files into APP. Sorry for the inexperience on this, but a little overwhelmed as I know it’s different from the old DSLR I was used to operating. Thanks for any advice you guys can give.Â
GregÂ
Hi Greg,
Have you watched any of the video tutorials? Two years ago when I joined, I started with Sara Wager's tutorials, specifically the video entitled "Getting started With Astro Pixel Processor". She's using an older version, but the workflow is the same.
Also, check out YouTube. There are a ton of How-To videos. Just type "Astro Pixel Processor" in the search bar. You might want to start there. APP's tutorials tend to focus on advanced techniques.
Brian
@astrohound24 no need to apologize for simply wanting to learn, that's to be praised even. đŸ˜‰
You can have a look at the video's above indeed, but it's basically very similar to what you were used to. The things you have to watch out for in such a camera are a proper gain and offset value (usually this can be found online for your model), also when you shoot bias frames, shoot them at 0.5 seconds at least. Too fast may cause issues with these sensors. If all that is fine, you simply get your raw subs again, just like with the DSLR and load them into APP together with the calibration data. The rest of the workflow is the same.
I want to thank you guys so much for the info. I recently setup an ASIAir Pro along with my Meade 70mm astrograph. My equipment is working well and I am slowly learning about my exposure lengths, etc. I love APP. I will watch the videos you guys referenced and see what I can figure out. Thanks so much again.
