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.
I must have a setting wrong somewhere. I shot lights, flats, darks, and bias frame as usual on three separate occasions in the past two weeks and the final image comes out still containing the blemishes (dust motes, etc) that the flats should be removing. This most recent run instead of using just the default settings I ran each tab separately (still using the default settings so I could inspect the frames at each step. When I launch any of the frames following each of the calibration, analyze, register and normalize steps and view the calibrated frame it is free of the blemishes that the flats take out. However, even in this case having confirmed that the individual frames are calibrated the final integrated image contains the blemishes. I'm stumped. I thought it might be my recent switch to beta 29 but while at lunch I ran my previous version (beta 14) and the same result occurred. I've used this camera/scope combination for more than three years and have never had this trouble.
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Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
Figured it out (FINALLY). Had a light leak affecting my darks and bias frames. I reshot calibration darks and bias frames after plugging the light leak and cleared up the calibration just fine. I was too focused on thinking the problem was in the flats.
Hi @dcaponeii,
Great, I am happy to read that you were able to solve this. Light leaks are very nasty and will create issues like this for sure. They can be so subtle that you would not notice it in a single calibrated light frame, but then all of a sudden, the issue shows in the integrated result like in your case.
Mabula
@mabula-admin I've started to look at my dark frames as soon as I've captured a few of them. Load them into APP and stretch them to make sure there's not a new leak. That step has allowed me to discover a new leak already. It's my Meade microfocuser. Light seems to be able to leak around the roller bearings somehow. Black electrical tape tightly surrounding the edges of the rollers seem to have licked the problem (for now),
