Apr 9 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta40 has been released !
It has a major performance boost of 30-50% over 2.0.0-beta39 from calibration to integration, for mosaics even faster! 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. Improved Outlier Rejection with LN 2.0 rejection. macOS CMD+A works now in file chooser ! And more, all will be added to the release notes in the coming hours...
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.
In my integrated image of the horsehead nebula, I notice steps pattern on the right side (attached).
The integration included two sessions (60s and 120s).
A meridian flip was done during the 120s session.
I suspect the the pattern is somehow related to a problem in normalization.
Help with the issue will be much appreciated.
Thanks
Ofer
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Mmm, I guess so, but the image doesn't look right either. It shouldn't be so dark nor over-saturated. Was this done to show the stepping? Could you describe what you do for calibration, your procedure, software used etc?
Sorry. the image was processed to highlight the stepping.
now I see that the stepping happened when I rotated the image in APP.
I attach the non-processed image and the rotated one.
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Oh interesting, I'll ask Mabula if that would make sense, thanks for showing!
