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.
Can I use APP to test what type of light filter (if any) will work best from my home backyard. E.g., if I take a blank shot and feed it to APP, it must know what light pollution is present in the image ( e.g., subtract the star light to get the background light). Could I use that information to identify what type of light filter if any could be used to remove some of the light pollution. May be the answer is no filter will work well but would like to know if there some objective way to come to this conclusion.
Good question. So, I think you can get an idea (never tested this like that myself), by looking at the SNR values etc. after processing. If you take a picture from the same object/part of the sky and in the same night compare the various filters (given the sky is at the same darkness level during that time), you may get an idea in that case.
