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 just finished a 6-panel Ha mosaic of the Heart and Soul region over several nights. Following the guidelines of the tutorials I integrated them with no trouble other than having to lower star threshold from 6 to 5 due to very small stars. However, there were a couple clear seams showing where illumination was very different between the panels. I am now running the individual panels again with higher degree LNC (2 instead of 1) and 4 iterations instead of 1. Looking for advice I guess on handling different quality panels.
Wayne
Follow up - doing the more rigorous LNC on the subs seemed to work a miracle - much better results. I keep trying to upload the results but get an error message.
You mean an error by the forum? Which one?
And great! You seem to be getting a feeling for fiddling around with the settings.
Thanks Vincent. Yes when I attempted to upload the image to the gallery it errored out. Tried several times. I uploaded another image this morning that appeared to work, but it hasn’t appeared in the forum. I’ll try the mosaic later. Maybe it was the size, 18mb?
Usually sizes and fora gives you errors yes, not sure what the max size actually is, I'll ask Mabula (@mabula-admin).
