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.
So i've found the source of all my issues here.
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Im not sure how this wasnt an issue last year at f7/f10, but at least with the target i've been shooting it is.
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There is a nearby shopping center in my bortle 5 sky, the light aims at the eastern side of the dome, the target is up above the shopping center basically (at around 62 degrees though). The angle of the light coming in apparently made the Lpro filter create a weird line on the right side and over time it lead to the uv-ir cut looking like in my image.
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I proved this by first trying a velcro strip around the drawer to rule out light there (it did seem to help with light tests).. but i think the brunt of the light comes around the dew shield. So i took 2 poles and put a tarp between them through ladders and blocked out the light.. my star count jumped from 38 to 49 and then when I integrate over more than 4 frames the distortions and brighter areas are gone (the flats only work so well i guess)
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I swear the zwo mini wheel worked without this issue though, but maybe that was a fluke or the angle by late at night had moved away from the ambient light.
Wow, nice find! Things like that indeed can cause issues and especially when shooting with faster scopes, thanks for sharing!
