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 itĀ 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.
With the beautiful comet Neowise gracing our skies these times I've collected a lot of images that each by themselves are a beauty to look at, but will do even better in a timelapse movie.
Is there a way to apply calibration to a series of images and eventually save them in e.g. jpeg format for further processing outside APP?
One of many exposures...
Ā Yes, you mean to use APP to calibrate the frames? You can do that and then save the calibrated frames (tab 4 all the way down). Then use e.g. PI for comet alignment.
I want to use APP to calibrate the frames, convert them to TIFF or JPEG or something not FITS that can be read by ffmpeg, and save them automatically. Doing this hundreds of times by hand is not my idea of a fun time 😋Ā
Ah, got ya. That will probably be possible when APP gets functionality in processing and calibrating files that are added to a specific folder. This is something thatās going to be added also because of iTelescope automation.
