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.
Just wondering what is the best way to process narrowband (say Ha) images. I have tried the Ha-OIII Extract Ha and it seems to work great. Some think that if you dither that a Bayer Drizzle integration works good too. It ends up with more detail and more noise.
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Not exactly sure what the Ha-OIII extract Ha does but is it preferable? I assume that it would also work for SII data given they both are in the red end of the spectrum?
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Any thoughts appreciated!
So for my understanding; you have the Ha data separate already in the beginning right? I use narrow band Ha, OIII, etc separately and combine them later in the tools menu.
No Vincent. I am taking Ha data through a one shot color camera with a Ha filter. Mabula has an algorithm in the RAW/FITS - Bayer CFA called Ha-OIII Extract Ha which does a nice job of extracting just the Ha data from OSC data.
Some say that if you integrate using the Bayer Drizzle method and extract the Ha data (I assume from the red channel) you will get sharper Ha data at the expense of more noise.
So just wondering if Mabula thinks one is better than the other.
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I must admit I didn't even know about that option, 😬 , I don't see many people with such a setup usually so never had to look into it. What I do know about my DSLR and taking Ha with that, is that the option to extract Ha directly in that step is the best way, both for the signal and noise. So I expect that to be the case for the Ha in your case as well. If you try both cases, you might be able to tell from the data in the SNR/Noise column if there is a difference.
