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.
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First of all thanks for your support. APP team is offering a great support to try to get a succesfull result on this project.
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We still cannit match the WIDE field image of Cygnus with the detailed data from my Takahashi FSQ85. Any clues will be welcome.
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Thanks Colm for all your personalized support.
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Link to this project: https://astrocat.info/cygnus-extreme-a-4-year-wide-field-image/
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Here some result with strange appearence:
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First succesfull stitches thanks to the great support of Colm O'Dwyer. We'll keep working on it. Some 170h of data await to see the first light in this Cygnus Wide field image.
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Many thanks APP for your help!
Doing some progress on the narrow band data of this widefield.
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Thanks so much. It's just a taste. I hope it will look much better (I hope) very soon thanks to APP team that are helping me with the mosaic high quality data integration. Can't express my gratitude in words 🙂
I agree with Wouter fully here, stunning result! How did you solve the issues you had? I guess switching off dynamic distortion correction for some panels?
