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.
Hi, I'm trying to use APP to save registered frames for a long timelapse I'm doing to capture meteors and satellites against a starry background of sharp round stars. My tracker isn't good enough to keep the stars pinpoint. APP does a great job of making the stars pinpoint sharp through registration but the satellites are no longer full straight lines. They have long parts of their paths missing. What setting do I need to change so that the saved registered images have the complete satellite trails and pinpoint stars? Thanks!
Satellite trail missing:
Satellite trail showing (but stars are not pinpoint sharp)
@rixon not sure you can. These gaps are presumably the short pauses between each individual exposures, (make sure pause in your plan is 0), or maybe dither time etc.
any sort of pause when not exposing woll show as a ‘blank’ in the trail when registered on stars.
Hi Andy, The problem I'm having is with the top picture produced by StarStaX (a program primarily used for making star trails) using the APP generated registered files. Both of those cropped pictures are the same satellite processed in StarStax. One is produced from the 2000 registered files in APP and thus they are sharp stars. The bottom one is produced by unregistered files from my camera on a tracker (thus the unsharp stars). What could be causing this enormous gap in APPs registered files? I'm not concerned with the tiny gaps in the bottom picture we are the result of 1/.7 second exposures with 1 second intervals. Thanks!
