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 there,
I have asked this question before but without a response. Maybe I had too many question packed in at once.
What does LPS in the channel selection stand for and how is it to be used?
If I would have to guess, maybe it means Light Pollution Suppression?Â
For subs taken with Astronomik CLS filter, would I select LPS (it it stands for light pollution suppression) or does it not matter, if I have only subs with same filter?Â
However, if I would load subs taken half without a filter and the other half with CLS, would it then matter?
In one of the very helpful videos I saw mentioned, APP recognizes automatically the different filters (LRGB) when loading all subs at once.Â
Thank you for your help.
Georg
Yes, you're correct, the LPS stands for Light Pollution Supression filter. Whatever you choose there doesn't really matter, it's a way to tag the data properly for a better organization, so if you don't have a specific narrowband filter used or mono data, you can pick RGB, UHC or LPS. APP does recognize it, but that'll depend on if the filter tag is included in the fits headers of the file.
Thank you Vincent,
In this case I will set up manual filter wheel in NINA and determine to use CSL or no filter and update the file name to include filter type.
However, as I am imaging with a DSLR with CR2 format file output, would that information even be saved?
Probably not indeed, then you can set it yourself.
