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.
Wondering if this is possible or something you've thought about adding. I want to shoot a mosaic with a full frame camera. The corners are not perfect at FF on my setup, it would be nice if I could somehow crop just like 5-8% off the left and right of each frame before integration and avoid it integrating the corners. This would still give me a much better field of view than a smaller camera but better result and not needing to cover a perfect FF field or merge the bad parts of the frame.
You can perform a crop on all frames if you want, is that what you're looking for? Tools menu -> batch crop
You can perform a crop on all frames if you want, is that what you're looking for? Tools menu -> batch crop
Does this work on raw data pre-integration? then I can load cropped fits and integrate/debayer fine as normal like it just came out of the camera that way?Â
I think so yes, I do have to say I never used that tools specifically as I always tend to just make the mosaic and then crop when required (I would advice that as well btw).
I think so yes, I do have to say I never used that tools specifically as I always tend to just make the mosaic and then crop when required (I would advice that as well btw).
To clarify my reasoning- it's the edges of the frames that are a problem so if you integrate a mosaic as is where the edges of each frame overlap there will be areas of bad stars/vignette which I don't want. I'm not trying to crop a finished mosaic I just don't want areas integrated with poor data. If you are overlapping parts of frame with not great data you will have a grid in the finished mosaic that is lesser quality stars. this can be noticeable on a lot of big mosaics if you look closely.Â
@xone Be very careful with this if you apply to raw data. It means that you need to crop your calibration data to exactly the same dimensions and exactly the same sub-frame as the lights otherwise you may run into problems with flat field correction.
I'm interested in this too. I have just started playing with mosaics, but I thought the best practice was to integrate the panels separately and mosaic the integrations as if they were lights. That means you could crop as much as you want as long as you leave enough overlap - and you don't have to worry about calibration problems as you would calibrate using the usual methods.
I only say this because I understood that a big mosaic might have thousands of frames and it is much faster to integrate the panes separately.
@xone Be very careful with this if you apply to raw data. It means that you need to crop your calibration data to exactly the same dimensions and exactly the same sub-frame as the lights otherwise you may run into problems with flat field correction.
Yeah good point I guess this is not such an easy solution then... it would be nice if there was an integrated functionality in the APP mosaic function to do this without causing issues or extra steps- just specify an X and Y crop factor before integrating
I guess you can calibrate your data, save the calibrated frames and then crop those? Saving of calibrated frames can be done in tab 2, all the way down.
