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.
I wanted to know if you can do an HDR style stack. A good for instance would be throwing in 5 second, 10 second, and 300 second subs from M42 and M43, and have the program normalize things so you don't blow out the core of M42 by using the shorter subs for that part. If it will then I will go ahead and get it even though ti doesn't support my native .dng files and I am not sure when that will happen, btu on some of my difficult targets I'd be willing to convert to tif files even though you lose some info if it will do this.
I am also interested to know if this is possible in APP. It would make it easier than using the tool in PixInsight and making multiple integrations. I suppose if we don't hear back from anyone I can integrate some M42 frames I have and see if it works.
I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think you can achieve a true HDR image yet, I would love to do that as well indeed.Â
