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.
Is there a quick start guide for APP, where in 30 minutes I can understand how to do a standard stacking and post processing workflow (e.g. for something as common as Andromeda)?
I realize that there are hours of video tutorials, but it would be helpful to get an "easy win" that would motivate to continue and go deeper vs going back to familiar tools such as DSS.
Not really that quick no. Basically, for regular integrations of relatively simple single-shot color data.. it's just a matter of loading the calibration frames, the lights and going to tab 6 and click "integrate". Many options are automatic now so that should already give a nice result, easily outdoing DSS for example.
In the workflows section of the forum there are a few more in-depth written tutorials, mainly for narrowband combinations with OSC data.
@vincent-mod Thanks! It is good to hear that the options are automatic (I interpret as having "intelligent defaults"). I indeed use single-shot color camera for now and was going directly to "integrate" after loading frames so it's good to hear that I wasn't missing anything important, at least for the beginner level.Â
Yes they are "intelligent" as in, they give the optimal result given what APP can know about the data. But for cases which are a bit more challenging or effects like undersampling and such, there you might want to change things. But you can learn about these in your journey of the hobby. 🙂
