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.
Hello. Brand new to APP. I have almost 13 hours collected on the Cone Nebula and Christmas Cluster.
I've been using DSS and PI.
I think I'll like APP more for 'scoring' and stacking.
I'm watching Youtube tutorials and going step by step.
My first question is which algorithm to choose for my Cone/Christmas data.
My camera is the ZWO 2600 mc pro and ALL images taken using the IDAS NBZ filter.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Robert
For regular datasets you can just use the standard settings. Load in your lights and calibration frames, go to tab 6 and press the integrate button. If you're going to use narrowband filters or will be doing mosaics and such, you'll have to change more settings.
Vincent thanks! Truthfully I've been into astrophotography for 4.5 months and don't even know if the IDAZ NBZ is a 'regular' dataset or narrowband? I'll google and see.
OK, just googled. The IDAS NBZ is listed as dual narrowband. Can you suggest settings for this filter? Well if you know them off the top of your head. I can begin googling
that too.
Thanks again,
Robert
That looks to be a dual narrowband filter yes. So for that kind of data you'd need to use the "extract HA" and "extract OIII" algorithms, you can choose those in tab 0 and then you'll get mono Ha and OIII images from that data which you can then combine later.
