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.
Hello everyone! I recently took the 30 day free trial and i'm trying to learn APP. So far it's a masterpiece of a software. Today the toolbar is not working nor the light pollution tool nor anything. When i click the neutralise BG in the sliders to the right, i get this error message:
I am just processing for now i haven't used integration so far. What should i do?
Thanks
Hi Christos and thanks for trying APP!
I'm noticing you're using 2 formats at the same time (tif and fits). Though I think that should work, could you try with a fits of the other?
@vincent-mod thanks for the swift reply. I will try it yes. Something odd is happening. I input my image as a tiff and resize it to nearly 2000 pixels. Then I get the error message. BUT. If I save the resized image, close APP and load the resized image again as a 32 float fit, the error is gone and I can edit the image. This really worked so I kinda went around the problem but If I can, I want to fix it. Please tell me what do you think. I will try your solution too. Thanks a lot.
Well, normally it's best to stick with 1 format and process your raw data in APP. If you have the option to use fits as a raw format, just use that. Hope it worksout and if you have any further questions, just ask. 😉
