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'm using a light pollution filter that I'm told is "broadband" - https://www.baader-planetarium.com/en/baader-neodymium-(moon-and-skyglow)-filter.html . My questions are - is this actually considered a "broadband" filter or a narrow band filter? And which algorithm should I choose when I load my lights into/darks/flats into APP? I'm shooting with an ASI294MCPro OSC camera. The link shows the spectral curve, but I'm including here, as well.Â
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Hi Ted,
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This is a typical broad band filter, a narrow band (like the name says) let's only thru a narrow portion of light for example a Baadrr Ha 7nm only let's thru the 7nm light from 656 till 663 nm.
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You're filter let's thru light from 400 till 700nm.
I would recommend to use the standard Adaptive area disk, this algorithm is the best for these kind of filters.
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Hope this helps.
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Clear skies Jan-Willem
@jw_duijndamhetnet-nl
Thank you!
