May 27 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta45 has been released !
Fully Multi-Threaded LNC, many improvements for the registration engine, platform upgrade, and further tuning of internal memory consumption and memory release back to OS.
Apr 14 2026: Google Pay, Apple Pay & WeChat Pay added as payment options
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.
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/
