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.
Dear all,
I have imaged recently Deer Lick Group(NGC 7331) and for Luminance I have taken about 10 h of 5 min subs(122 in total) and also 3.5 h of 30 min subs(7 subs). I have tried stacking the together, I am getting some strange artefacts in the NGC 7331's core. Any idea what settings I need to change to correct the final image? From the standard integration panel I have only changed the droplet size to 0.5 and the mode is interpolation at scale 2.0 with automatic setting. I have attached snips with 5/30 and all subs stacked stretched in PI-intensity transformation only
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Try zooming in with using one of the automatic stretches in APP, and also check to see if PI is displaying it in a lower bit depth than it is. That looks more like an artifact from having a lower bit depth (32 bit vs 8 bit zoomed in tight before processing is finished is a good example). Also, try finishing out your processing and saving a jpeg or a 16 bit tif and see what happens with using something like windows photo viewer on them.
