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.
I've just downloaded a 30 day trial of APP and I have to say that I'm very impressed with the hassle free process of calibration, registration, stacking...and mosaic production.
I do, however, have one problem that I can't seem to work out:
I've been working on a mosaic of Simeis 147 and have so far acquired 6 out of my planned 12 panes using SGPro.
I've loaded all of the subs, along with calibration darks, flats and bias frames into APP using Sara's tutorial as a guide and APP does ok except on one vertical seam where it produces double stars (as per the stretched screen grab image attached). The affected seam is the left hand seam of the top right pane. All of the other seams are perfect - even the horizontal seam at the bottom of the same pane.
I've tried this three times now, but always get the same result..on the same seam of the same pane.
Could anyone point me at a setting that I'm missing that could be the cause of this please?
Many thanks in advance.
Regards
Steve
This topic was modified 7 years ago by Mabula-Admin
I've just downloaded a 30 day trial of APP and I have to say that I'm very impressed with the hassle free process of calibration, registration, stacking...and mosaic production.
I do, however, have one problem that I can't seem to work out:
I've been working on a mosaic of Simeis 147 and have so far acquired 6 out of my planned 12 panes using SGPro.
I've loaded all of the subs, along with calibration darks, flats and bias frames into APP using Sara's tutorial as a guide and APP does ok except on one vertical seam where it produces double stars (as per the stretched screen grab image attached). The affected seam is the left hand seam of the top right pane. All of the other seams are perfect - even the horizontal seam at the bottom of the same pane.
I've tried this three times now, but always get the same result..on the same seam of the same pane.
Could anyone point me at a setting that I'm missing that could be the cause of this please?
Now that I've got that sorted, I'm very impressed with how seamlessly and easily APP has constructed this mosaic.
You asked to see the final result, but I'm afraid that a final result will be over a year away - so here's progress so far: six out of a planned twelve panes. Each pane is 6 x 30mins using an Atik 460ex through a 3nm Ha Chroma filter and a Tak FSQ106ED mounted on a 10u GM1000HPS. It was acquired using the Framing and Mosaic Wizard in SGPro.
This was calibrated, normalised, registered, integrated and assembled in APP with minor post processing in PI. This is only a scaled jpeg - the whole image is over 60Mb...so far!
Hope you like it
Regards
Steve
Steve
This post was modified 7 years ago 3 times by Steve1962
Now that I've got that sorted, I'm very impressed with how seamlessly and easily APP has constructed this mosaic.
You asked to see the final result, but I'm afraid that a final result will be over a year away - so here's progress so far: six out of a planned twelve panes. Each pane is 6 x 30mins using an Atik 460ex through a 3nm Ha Chroma filter and a Tak FSQ106ED mounted on a 10u GM1000HPS. It was acquired using the Framing and Mosaic Wizard in SGPro.
This was calibrated, normalised, registered, integrated and assembled in APP with minor post processing in PI. This is only a scaled jpeg - the whole image is over 60Mb...so far!
Hope you like it
Regards
Steve
Steve
Fantastic result so far, really looking forward to the end product 👍
It’s a really slow business - the weather here is rubbish - and the target is past its best for this season so it looks like another year before I can add to it. ☹️
