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 have just put together my first mosaic using APP and it was reasonably successful. This was of 6 panels of the sky covering the Veil Nebula system. I used the same system / settings for each of the panels.Â
For the mosaic I just used the common calibration files, darks, flats, etc. added all the lights and set the processing going.
However I would like to include data of that area of the sky taken at earlier times using different cameras/scopes.
Firstly is this possible?
Secondly, if so, how is the calibration done. Do all the lights have to be pre-calibrated independently before the subsequent processes?
Thanks in anticipation
Frank
@thedwo Hi Frank,
Firstly is this possible?
Yes, this is possible.
Secondly, if so, how is the calibration done. Do all the lights have to be pre-calibrated independently before the subsequent processes?
There are several approaches to this.
One possibility is to process all data of the different telescopes separately. Once done you can load all integration results as lights into one session (no calibration data since that already was applied) and go to tab 6 and click the "integrate" button.
Another possibility is to process the data of the different telescopes together in one go. You can then load the lights and calibration files per telescope in separate sessions and then go to tab 6 and click the "integrate" button. Depending on the APP version you are using and whether you combine mono and color data, this may or may not work. Also, all individual lights will be aligned with each other which can potentially take a long time and require many system resources depending on the number of lights. It may be easier and safer to go for the first option.
HTH, Wouter
Thank you, that was very helpful.
I'll give it a go.
Frank
