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! It would be lovely if APP produced a "summary report" for each integration run, much like a text version of the snazzy new Analytical Results Per Light Frame graph in 2.0 beta 17. This is useful so we have a record of what specific frames went into the integration along with useful summary data -- total integration time per filter (I understand this is Total Integration Time in the FITS header), number of subs per filter, median FWHM/eccentricity/SNR per filter, average ADU per filter, etc.
A month or so ago I went on vacation and look a ton of raw subs with me that I stacked into about 2 dozen targets. For most integrations I de-selected some subs for quality reasons, so I ended up using fewer subs in the integration than I had. My vacation brain forgot to note these down, so in many cases I don't know that I took "X subs of Y seconds for Z filter" and thus can't post that with my images. It would be useful if APP saved just such a report with each integration.
Hi @mountainair,
Thank you very much for your suggestion, I have added this to our Todo list since I think it has merit for sure 😉
Mabula
