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 have an ASI294 OSC camera and decided to process it by splitting the channels, which created all the RGB subs. What do I do then? I thought they'd already been normalized and registered so went straight to integration, but I got error message. please help!
What was your decision to process them seperately? If I'm not mistaken the OSC version has a Bayer matrix, so you should be able to use the raw images directly. What steps did you take exactly in APP, could you elaborate on that a bit? Like how you split the channels etc? Also, the error message would be nice to know as that might tell us something as well.
Thanks Vincent, I wanted to split them to try using the wonderful Color Combine tool where you can change channel strengths and color assignments like I do with my narrowband images. When I tried, I loaded the three channels, but I was prompted 3 times for color assignments with each channel - like assign Red to Red three times and the same with g and b. ( prompts all together. In the little I tried, using the color combine tool with RGB didn't work as well as with narrowband, so I'm now just processing them directly.
PS I've been asked to demo APP to the November meeting of the Seattle Astrophotography Club, I'd be interested if you guys had some overview materials, PowerPoint slides etc I could borrow? Key features, development direction? Thanks!
Thanks Vincent, I wanted to split them to try using the wonderful Color Combine tool where you can change channel strengths and color assignments like I do with my narrowband images. When I tried, I loaded the three channels, but I was prompted 3 times for color assignments with each channel - like assign Red to Red three times and the same with g and b. ( prompts all together. In the little I tried, using the color combine tool with RGB didn't work as well as with narrowband, so I'm now just processing them directly.
Ah I get it, not sure if that would give you better data actually, your goal would then be to have more saturation of colors? You can just saturate those later and I think that will have the same effect. The RGB combine tool works very well when having true R, G and B data seperately, at least it worked when I used it recently.
PS I've been asked to demo APP to the November meeting of the Seattle Astrophotography Club, I'd be interested if you guys had some overview materials, PowerPoint slides etc I could borrow? Key features, development direction? Thanks!
That is really cool! Thanks for presenting it there. I'm sure Mabula @mabula-admin will give you some nice materials.
Thanks Vincent, I wanted to split them to try using the wonderful Color Combine tool where you can change channel strengths and color assignments like I do with my narrowband images. When I tried, I loaded the three channels, but I was prompted 3 times for color assignments with each channel - like assign Red to Red three times and the same with g and b. ( prompts all together. In the little I tried, using the color combine tool with RGB didn't work as well as with narrowband, so I'm now just processing them directly.
Hi @whixson @vincent-mod,
If you split the channels in 2) Calibrate, APP will save the channels in your work directory. These should be monochrome frames with only 1 channel.
But there is no need to separate unless you want to combine the data with monochrome data like a monochrome luminance channel or monochrome H-a data.
The RGB integration that you end up with, after integrating the regular (unsplit) frames, can simply be loaded into the RGB Combine tool directly. The tool will see that it is RGB data and will then allow you to separate it into 3 channels to work with in the tool 😉
Kind regards,
Mabula
Thanks! I didn’t try that 🙂
