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,
I've just started back doing some astrophotography having been absent for a while due to illness. In this time APP has changed a fair bit.
I've also moved from a DSLR to a ZWO Asi 1600MM and I'm in the process of creating a darks library. Having taken 100 images at each setting I now want to create master darks for each setting to use in the future.
Looking at APP I can open my 100 images and when I go to calibrate there is now a setting for automatic can I just use this to create my master darks or do I have to enter Average etc like I used to do.
Thanks
Doug
Automatic should work fine yes, rejection parameters and what algorithm to use is then set properly. Don't forget to select to create a BPM, which you can use regardless of the gain.
Automatic should work fine yes, rejection parameters and what algorithm to use is then set properly. Don't forget to select to create a BPM, which you can use regardless of the gain.
Hi Vincent,
Thanks for the reply.
I've not done a BPM at this time as I only have darks and I was waiting until I have some dark flats as I've read you should not use bias frames with the Asi 1600MM.
Having not used the Asi 1600 before when I make the BPM do I only have to make it once. I don't have to make one for each gain/offset.
Thanks
Doug
Sorry, just read your reply again and see that gain etc doesn't matter.
Doug
