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.
To calibrate lights just with master flats (created with Sharpcap already bias subtracted) + masterdarkflat is impossibile: popup warning.
Why does flat (or master flat) calibration always need darks (or master dark) to work?
Applying darks (or master dark) to my lights, with asi533, often create more problems than advantages ( https://www.astropixelprocessor.com/community/main-forum/hot-pixel-final-integration-with-black-stripes/ ): so i come to conclusion, after days of experimenting, that using BPM solves that annoying problem of black stripes.
But it's impossible using just BPM: APP wants always darks (or master dark) to calibrate flats (or master flat)...I don't want to use darks...even because asi533 has 0 (zero) ampglow, so no need to use darks that introduce a problem in final stacked image (instead of improving it).
Thanks
I think it's better not to use Sharpcap or any other processor to calibrate your frames. They do things differently compared to APP and APP in this sense is superior with its algorithms to calibrate your data. Same thing for your flats, APP probably has no idea they were already calibrated.
Just load in your data + calibration data and let APP create the masters, that might actually solve your other issue as well... maybe.
