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.
Hi Folks,
Quick question that I can't seem find on my own ... how do I save a custom RGB combine formula for future use?
Thanks!
-Bret
@bstott_98 This is not possible yet in APP. Version 2.0.0 is in development to allow users to save presets. I'll ask Mabula if he plans to include this as well.
Having said that, APP comes with a very big list of presets. Is that not sufficient?
Hi Wouter,
Thanks the response … now I know why I couldn’t find it. :).
Anyway, each camera/filter set has different sensitivities and each user has different tastes for color mixing… especially for narrowband. Not a big deal by any means … it’s easy enough to just keep some notes and dial in a starting point.
-Bret
I would like to second the request to save RGB combine formulae. I do try to write them down, but sometimes I forget and then later wish to try a variant of what I used before… except I didn’t save it or can’t find it.
The exact formula used for SHO combine seems to vary depending on what proportions of signal strength each channel has in the object being imaged, the amount of subexposures taken (the proportions of which can vary from object to object), and quality of those subexposures. Maybe I am off base here, but while starting with SHO-1, I vary the formula with most SHO images, sometimes considerably, in trying to achieve the desired color rendition.
Thanks for being open to the idea!
David
Hi Bret @bstott_98 and David @drreagan,
Saving particular formula will only be very usefull for a single dataset, so it has not much use to save these formula. The reason is that the formula will be different depending on a lot of factors :
- the object itself
- the amount of data
- the quality of the data
- the filters used
- the sky conditions
- the camera used etc...
So even with the same setup, you could have a nice formula for a particular dataset of 1 object shot during 1 imaging session. Then if you would add more data from a 2nd session, the formula to get a similar result can change significantly because of difference in sky quality between the session for instance.
So I would suggest rather that we add more of these formula presets like SHO1, SHO2 and they will then provide nice entries for a customized formula, which you will always need to get the most pleasing result I think. Does this sound reasonable?
Mabula
