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.
As a testament to Astro pixel processor stability and flexibility, I mentioned in one of my earlier post I was about to integrate 1098 Subs along varying ISO and exposure times with Associated calibration frames. I got them all loaded up calibrated, star analyzed, normalized. When I went to integrate APP informed me it would take 680 GB and I was slightly below that with my terabyte hard drive 40% full. So, I whittled it down to 848 Subs, and Astro pixel processor chugged away for hours without a hitch producing my integration. It was 27 thousand some odd seconds. Unfortunately it had included some bad Subs that I loaded up so I'm going to try it again with around 550. A stellar performance of the software👍
Hi Greg,
that's awesome, I have made integrations of 400 frames, but not that large...
Please share the result without the bad frames that you mentioned 😉
Mabula
Here is a crop of the better part of the 27,810 sec integration. There is a super long story of why I used an old Master Flat and took no flats for these (we don't want to go there). Still working on the blues:
Feel free to fix it😉
Don't see a lot of benefit in 27k vs 12k sec from backyard. Will try on Orion next year again.
Hi Greg,
Yes at some point, adding more data will add less and less improvements in image quality.
Mabula
