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.
I occasionally get odd results with LNC.Ā This is an Ha stack (13 x 1200s) - it is one panel from a wide view of M42/NGC1999.Ā I processed this in the sual way with BPM and Master Bias, Dark and Flat.Ā
This is the stack with no LNC:
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And here are exactly the same settings, but with LNC Degree set at '1' and Iterations set at '3'.
I occasionally get odd results with LNC.Ā This is an Ha stack (13 x 1200s) - it is one panel from a wide view of M42/NGC1999.Ā I processed this in the sual way with BPM and Master Bias, Dark and Flat.Ā
This is the stack with no LNC:
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And here are exactly the same settings, but with LNC Degree set at '1' and Iterations set at '3'.
Any ideas?
Hi Steve,
Thank you very much for sharing.
That looks very odd, especially since only 1st degree LNC was used?
Can you send me the data so I can test what's happening?
I will work on improving LNC soon, so it will be very helpfull if you could send me the data so we can further improve the module 😉Ā
I did download the files, haven't tested yet, but will sure do. First I need to release APP 1.057 (with fix for your multi-channel processing problem), then in APP 1.058 I probably upgrade the LNC tool š
