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.
Hi,
When I recently processed some of my latest frames of Messier 22 (light frames are 30sec each), I loaded for testing purposes my 60sec Master Dark in APP (set it to "all channels" since it was multichannel processing). Then I clicked on "assign Masters to Lights" with "calibration warnings" and ... nothing happens? Instead the master dark was assigned to each light showing up in the list. I'm a bit confused - shouldn't APP warn the user?
Stephan
I do recommend that APP warns the user when
- ISO/Gain values of all frames do not match
- exposure Time of Darks and Lights resp. DarkFlats and Flat do not match
Although I'm usually very carefully, I recently had the case that I calibrated lights images with darks of different ISO value accidentally...
Stephan
I'm not 100% sure, but APP does work with dark scaling. Although I'm not sure if it should do that (or if it does that at all when using already made master-darks) automatically. Mabula, can you shed some light on that? (@mabula-admin)
Scaling Darks is disabled by default. So when you load wrong darks something will go wrong...
I suggest to implement some kind of warning.
