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.
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I recently changed to APP from DSS, and acquired the above camera. First image taken of M51 looks great in detail terms, but I cannot remove the grid pattern of the Bayer matrix. Tried in DSS and BGGR seemed to work best, - a homogeneous picture without grid, but when I try to repeat in APP it doesn't work. Can you help me out with the workflow? I attach a single FIT file for appraisal, and a finished version done with DSS and Lightroom for review
thanks
Mike
Hello Mike,
This is what I get when I select RGGB and force Bayer CFA selected.
BGGR as you had chosen (with, again, force Bayer CFA selected) also gives a result without a grid pattern, but the colors are too much to the blue side...the NGC5195 part should be slightly yellow/orange and not blue. The M51 spiral companion should be slighly yellow in the centre (Population II stars) with a bit of blue (Population I stars) and magenta (HII areas) in the spiral arms. If you check "Saturation" in the panel on the right hand side, you can evaluate the color much easier, the image I uploaded looks almost monchrome, but it is not. Just see for yourself.
Just do not forget the part in bold type 😉
I have been bitten by this mistake more often than I can remember, but it is second nature now. I whish that APP would remember this in a settings file to make life a bit easier, but that is on the feature request list......
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Regards,
Anne
Hello Anne
thank you, I looked at the CFA check box, but as it talked about monochrome... I ignored it! I will give that a go, and post the result
Mike
I also have a SXVR-H9C and the Bayer pattern is quoted as RGBG in the manual.
Should I process with BGGR and the CFA box ticked? Will this give a true representation of the colour?
Peter
Hi Peter,
First of all, the force CFA box should always be ticked (unless you use a DSLR raw image or mono camera).
Just start with what is in your manual and see what it looks like. If this does not look good:
Of the four possible CFA pattern combinations, 2 will give grid patterns, so you can eliminate them when you zoom in to inspect them.
The 2 remaining give different colors. You will have to rely on common sense (what does this object looks like on images you know) to see which one is the most likely. You can also take an image of a daytime scene and then it will clearer.
Regards,
Anne
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Thanks Anne. The manual says RGBG but there is not an option for that in APP. I'll see how it goes.
Peter
Hi,
I, too, happen to forget to tick "Force CFA" from time to time. It has been mentioned before that it would be helpful, if one could save settings or profiles in APP . But it would also help, if "Force CFA" would be set as default.
Regards
StefanÂ
