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.
Hi There, I just bought an L-Ultimate filter for my OSC setup. Â My first imaging session was last night. Â I shot 103 subs at 300s. Â There was a meridian flip just about 1/2 through the session. Â For some reason APP won't register the subs correctly. Â Visually, all the subs look fine. Â With the defaults it fails to register most of the subs pre-flip. Â If I loosen up the parameters to include more stars and increase the scale stop as suggested by the registration failure error message, I can force APP to register all the subs but I end up with a composite of the pre and post meridian flip images! Â If I stick with the defaults and only let the registered frames go through to integration, the frames don't register to each other properly so everything is really blurry. Â I took the same data and processed it through SIRIL and the image came out beautifully. Â Is there a setting I'm missing for dual band data that could be causing this problem? Â I basically just used the same setting I use with my OSC data.
I took a subset of the data that included subs that failed to register and stacked them in WBPP. Â It too seemed to have no problem with producing a good result.
Never mind, I figured it out. Â The L-Ultimate data is much noisier than my unfiltered data normally is, so APP was picking up some of the noise and other artifacts as stars. Â Once I turned on the noise reducer option in the Analyse Stars function and cranked that up to 11 it worked like a charm.Â