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,
To work with APP I need to convert DSLR RAWs to FITS, I did this with PixInsight´s batch format conversion.
The raws are 16 bit OSC.
In PixInsight´s format conversion I set input hints to "raw cfa"
..... - output format hints: empty
In APP I set 0) RAW/FITS: force bayer CFA
With APP I calibrated LIGHTS, BIAS, FLATS..., analysed stars
APP shows "no cfa" in the image list.
When trying to analyse stars APP reports : "lights have only 1 channel", "Master BIAs / FLATS have 3 channels"
These are the informations concerning format hints in PI:
raw (r ) Load a raw Bayer RGB image without interpolation,
no white balancing, no black point correction,
with unused frame areas cropped, no frame
rotation, no highlights clipping, and no noise
reduction.
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cfa (r ) Load a monochrome raw CFA frame.
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no-cfa (r ) Do not load a monochrome raw CFA frame.
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bayer-drizzle (r ) Load a raw Bayer RGB image without interpolation.
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no-bayer-drizzle (r ) Do not load a raw Bayer RGB image.
Any suggestions (set: no-cfa?....)
Peter
You shouldn't have to convert raw's from a DSLR if they are supported by APP. Which camera are you using and did you try just loading the raws in?
...they are not supported: IIQ /PhaseOne files. (this digital back should not be used for astro.... no surprise, but I have a landscape + milky way image (lights, bias, flats) from Tanzania which I want to develop).
Actually I am doing the second try
Peter
...got it now (converted and processed). Made a nice mosaic with bad data after some trials
Nice! Would love to see it! More and more models are being supported, in the upcoming 1.076 a lot will be added. Not sure about yours though.
