2023-03-15: APP 2.0.0-beta14 has been released !
IMPROVED FRAME LIST, sorting on column header click and you can move the columns now which will be preserved between restarts.
We are very close now to releasing APP 2.0.0 stable with a complete printable manual...
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Hi. I'm new to this forum but I've used the APP trial. It took a bit of learning but I did like it. I noticed it brought out more signal in the final image than DSS did. I want to purchase it but I do really want GPU acceleration to work before I jump in. Also saw some mentions of an internal star detection algo. Could that be used to remove stars like Starnet++ or StarXterminator? Send all that to the GPU as well?
@digug Hi George,
Currently APP 2.0.0 is in preparation which focuses on saving settings and intermediate processing state, as well as an extensive user manual.
GPU acceleration is on the TODO list but not for this version. Why do you insist on having that?
There is a Star Reduction tool that allows for reducing the star sizes and in some cases removing the stars completely. It works in a similar way as the other tools that you mention but is a custom implementation and doesn't allow yet to separate the stars, process them separately and recombine again. That, too, is planned for a future version of APP.
HTH, Wouter
GPU acceleration is on the TODO list but not for this version. Why do you insist on having that?
Premium price is why I insist. I enjoyed the trial but the processing time took about as long and in some cases longer than DSS. Once CUDA or GPU acceleration for processing images, not just star removal, becomes a standard supported feature I will definitely make the purchase.
