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.
I have some OSC data with minor chromatic aberration as well as data taken with a dual band Ha-OIII filter and am wondering what the optimal way to process is. Â It seems like two possible options:
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1) use Ha extract and OIII extract plus align and save Ha, OIII, and CA corrected RGB files and then register, integrate those
2) use Ha extract, OIII extract, and separate R G and B files and then register and integrate those
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are these equivalent or does the align process do some smart CA correction that would be lost in going to channel separated data?
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Thanks
Mm, good question, the align function works best with RGB data as far as I know, but I'll ask Mabula for this one.. I think you can align the RGB and then add the mono later, but not sure if that then shows it again.
I have some OSC data with minor chromatic aberration as well as data taken with a dual band Ha-OIII filter and am wondering what the optimal way to process is. Â It seems like two possible options:
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1) use Ha extract and OIII extract plus align and save Ha, OIII, and CA corrected RGB files and then register, integrate those
2) use Ha extract, OIII extract, and separate R G and B files and then register and integrate those
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are these equivalent or does the align process do some smart CA correction that would be lost in going to channel separated data?
Â
Thanks
Hi Thomas @gordoabc,
Very good question, workflow 1) is the best option for sure. The Align Channels option in 2)Calirbate uses a special registration model (4th degree polynomials) that can deal with very complex chromatic aberrations. The normal registration model with distortion correction enabled can only correct less sever chromatic aberrations, because that uses different mathematical assumptions.
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