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. First of all I have the trial version - downloaded yesterday. I uploaded 180 lights, 20 darks, 60 Bias and 80 flats. I have run all the steps, startting with tab 3 but when I run the Integrate tab I get the following:
I think I have done everything correct but apparently I'm wrong. Is there anything someone could help me with?
So, just to inform a bit; how did you take the darks and bias frames, do they have a proper offset for instance?
Hi Vincent. Thanks for the quick reply. I figured it out and am now super hyped about APP! Cheers
Thanks Geoff, what did you find out? Now I'm curious. 🙂
Hey Vincent. Now I’m not sure if this is what solved the problem or not. I was blindly experimenting. When I got the error message I had loaded fits files for the lights and darks as well as CR files for flats and bias. (Long sad story) When I loaded just one - the CR files - it ran fine. I don’t know enough to know if the combination of types was the problem or not - but from now on it will be one or the other - not both! Thanks for following up.
Ah interesting. Yes mixing different formats for the same calibration may not be the best indeed. Never actually tried that. 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
