June 24 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta46 has been released !
Improved internal memory configuration (lower ! memory usage), fixed beta45 startup issue, fixed Set Save Directory & 2-panel mosaics.
May 27 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta45 has been released !
Fully Multi-Threaded LNC, many improvements for the registration engine, platform upgrade, and further tuning of internal memory consumption and memory release back to OS.
Apr 14 2026: Google Pay, Apple Pay & WeChat Pay added as payment options
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.
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I got a question:
The lightpad I use to take flats is quite bright, so I have to use short exposure times for the flats. However, the images sometimes have a rolling shutter effect, probably due to the refresh rate of the light of the flat panel.
I wanted to ask how APP is treating those images that have these "outliers". Do I have to worry about incorrect flats, or can APP create a clean Masterflat still?
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CS Tobi
Hi Tobias @tobigh3,
In my experience, such a rolling shutter effect really must be avoided to start with if you want realiable results. If the lightpad is so bright, you better find a way to dim it, maybe wrap 2-3 with tshirts in front of it while making sure the thsirts are not wrinkled. That can help, I have done this myself in the past.
MasterFlats are created by not only integrating the flats. The flats are normalized first. The flat frames that are bad due to rolling shutter will be normalized to the correct ones, so that surely will give issues and I do not think that outlier rejection will solve that. One thing that you can try to do is not normalize the flats in 2)Calibrate, you can disable that. But to be clear, that is not a solution really, you need to normalize flats for best results. The masterflat without normalizing the flats might be better than the normalized masterflat with bad flats in there though...
Mabula
