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.
Topic starter
October 10, 2018 05:54
I use iTelescope images and the subs are precalibrated. I assume that I just skip the Calibration phase?
October 10, 2018 06:43
You can get the raw data from iTelescope, including darks, bias and flats if I'm not mistaken. It's best to let APP do that processing as its one of its powers. But if you don't want to, you can integrate without calibration files yes.
Topic starter
October 10, 2018 07:26
That’s right, and there’s no charge for them. I’ll try that!
Topic starter
October 10, 2018 07:29
PS I paid for an annual subscription today. Love APP. Reprocessing old data, got the best Crescent Nebula I’ve done.
October 10, 2018 09:49
Thanks and yes, that seems to be the overall impression many get. 🙂
