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.
I was trying to register two files (one Ha and one OIII integrated separately from each other) when I got an exception after I try to save the registered files. The same happens after removing light pollution and saving the frame. In both cases the files save OK but the file list is not updated.
Wouter
Sorry for the delay..
Well now that is interesting as I had the exact same crash after LP correction. Passed it on to Mabula immediately.
Hoi @wvreeven,
I am trying to duplicate this issue, but up until now, saving always works here...
Perhaps this happens only in certain situations with certain data. Can you upload the frames on which this happens and describe exactly what you are doing? Thanks 😉
https://ariesprodstor.astropixelprocessor.com:7001/
login & password : appuser
Kind regards,
Mabula
Hoi @mabula-admin,
I cannot seem to be able to reproduce this either. Perhaps it was a glitch in the Matrix. Perhaps @vincent-mod is able to reproduce this?
Thanks, Wouter
Hi Wouter @wvreeven and @vincent-mod,
Vincent had some data on which I could reproduce the error. It was related to a change in the FITS header tag FILTER-x to FILT-x to support more than 10 filters. The FITS header tags are not allowed to be longer than 8 characters.
This error should be fixed now.
I will build APP 1.079 today or tomorrow and release it with this fix and also the fix for the mosaic registration 🙂
Mabula
Hi Mabula @mabula-admin,
That's great. I'll be looking forward to yet another improved version of your already amazing software!
Wouter
