MAY 4 2026: APP 2.0.0-beta44 has been released !
New improved internal memory controls should now work on all computers
May 1 2026: APP 2.0.0-beta43 has been released !
Improved internal memory controls (much more stable and faster on big datasets), fixed CPU image viewer, fixed Narrowband extraction demosaic algortihms.
Apr 29 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta42 has been released !
New improved Normalization engine, Fixed random crashes in integration, fixed RGB Combine & Calibrate Star Colors, fixed Narrowband extraction algorithms, new development platform with performance gains, bug fixes in the tools, etc...
Apr 14 2026: Google Pay, Apple Pay & WeChat Pay added as payment options
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.
Why is the integrated image have distortion like fisheye lens, as opposed to just being a normal rectangular image? I believe I used all the default settings for star analysis and registration, with "distortion correction" and "same camera and optics" checked.
Hi Maxim @mseningmail-com,
In this case, distortion correction is not needed and should be turned off, you trigger a bug in our registration engine. The optical distortion correction can have a mathematical instability on data that really does not need it. So turn it off and all should be okay 😉
We will fix this going forward 😉
Mabula
Thanks, @mabula-admin, I already figured it out. I wonder if it's related to stars with coma and minor tilt at the edges so that APP computes PSF of the edge stars and tries to correct for it as if it were a fisheye lens or something with astigmatism. Thanks anyway.
