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 itĀ 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.
Hello APP'ers,
Am currently running the 30 day trial of APP and have had some success with with a widefield of M42 & Horsehead shot at 200mm with Canon 5D mk iv raw files. I'm trialling APP because DSS won't process my 5D mk iv RAW files (works ok with TIFFS) - something to do with DCRaw I think.
Last night I tried running APP against a different subject, with 93 light frames, but after 2 & 1/2 hours number crunching my ageing Windows 10 PC spat out a black rectangle with barely any data on the histogram. Very frustrating! The only difference between my success & failure were more frames for the failure (93 versus about 25 for successful M42) and I didn't add any darks for the failed image. I used the best 80% of the 93 frames & used default settings...
My question is, seeing as my PC is rather slow, can I run APP on say 10 light frames + darks, generate a FITS file from those, and then add in more light frames to add to the FITS file later? I.E. without having to process all 93 frames at once (and wait 2 1/2 hours!!!) ?
Hope that makes sense!
Thank you in advance,
Stephen.
P.S. I will be away from my PC for much of the rest of today so please don't think I am rude if I don't respond right away...
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You can process stacks seperately, correct them completely and then do another combination later with the seperate stacks yes.
Thank you for the reply Vincent, and a Happy ChristmasĀ 😀Ā
