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 captured some Narrowband Data of the sadr region, framing up IC 1318 exactly how I wanted. I was kind of going for that gold/blue look, or similar at least by mapping SHO.
I have:
6 Hours Sii @ 300" per frame
6 Hours OIII @ 300" per frame
3 Hours Ha @ 300" per frame
I thought that would have been enough time to get a decent enough image, however the final product is looking very underwhelming to most of my other images.
First, it's a gross green. I understand Ha is mapped to green and that is why, however, pretty much whatever I do still makes it gross looking. I tried following a tutorial and I had mapped 33% green to all channels, still no help. It just looks mucky.
Hi Daniel,
In SHO (Hubble palette), Ha is mapped to green. I usually do the channel combination and further processing in PI so if anyone cares to post a good APP workflow for SHO then I’d be very interested as well.
And by all means post your data!
Clear skies and stay safe, Wouter
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15DjlqKmflC74mZBw6v9Izy_cTCYSAsaj?usp=sharing
Data can be accessed here!
I a surprised to see that the SII data is MUCH brighter than OIII. Are you sure you didn't accidentally swap the two filters? And did you process the three images (e.g. background calibration and light pollution removal) or are those raw stacks?
