UPDATE FROM MABULA
I have had a very rough 2 months unfortunately health wise. I was struck 3x in a row with bacterial infections. The second infection occurred after a routine hospital checkup and I became very sick. I had to rest and take a lot of antibiotics. Once I was recovering and restarting work 1 month ago, I again became sick. The infection was not yet gone, so even more antibiotics and rest was needed. Needless to say, it took a lot of my energy and I needed a lot of rest.
Finally, the infection is really gone and my energy is coming back step-by-step now and I have started work again. I am terribly sorry to have kept you waiting for support. I will address all outstanding questions and e-mails step-by step and will be on the forum daily from today.
APP 2.0.0-beta47 will come soon as well, a lot of work was already completed before I became very ill, so the release is also nearly ready for you. Beta47 will be much faster actually. Many workflows will be more than 2x faster, mosaics can even be 10x faster than before because registration really received a major boost... all compared to beta46. Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
Good morning! Vincent, thanks for your devotion to the forum - hope you and Mabula have a great time at Astrofest. I expect one of the hot topics will be Starlink and the other upcoming mega-satellite constellations and their effect on astronomers. I wonder if people have ideas on how best to deal with this situation as astroimagers. Both in terms of imaging techniques and processing techniques. More and shorter subs, more dithering, advanced rejection algorithms for example? Might be a topic to bring up with Mabula in terms of APP. Maybe he’s already thinking about it.
thanks, Wayne
Thank you Wayne, that's very kind of you! Mabula is in London already, I'll be joining this Thursday and won't be here till the Tuesday after that. It'll be my first astro-event I actually go to. 😉 Going to be fun.
Well Starlink, isn't that the hot topic indeed. Personally, I think it'll be fine for a while, dithering and simply stacking with outlier rejection will fix a lot of the issues. It becomes another story when the sky will be really full of them, but I wonder how much of an issue that will really be. There are great concerns for radio astronomers for sure. You might get an idea about the difficulty when imaging M42, which is full of geo-stationary satellites. Here's an little article about that; https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-blogs/imaging-foundations-richard-wright/satellites-begone-how-to-remove-satellite-trails-from-your-astrophotography/
