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.
I have followed the sticky "tutorial" for integrating the dual-band data in the RGB Combine tool as closely as I can, but no matter what I do, I get a monochrome image. Did Ha-O3 extracts from OSC with LEnhance filter. Get two files, analyze stars, register, normalize, save normalized, added to RGB Combine tool with HOO1 formula. Calculate, get monochrome. Changing sliders for colors has no effect.
I have had success getting "false" color with native SHO data, but the OSC dual band is "no bueno"
Lastly, please release a real user manual that addresses these workfllows as well as the use or abuse of the many obscure parameters that are available in APP
Thanks
Chris
HI Chris @cdugger,
Did you set the 0) RAW/FITS demosaic setting to both extract Ha and O3? Did both stack clearly look different? If you don't see colors in the RGB combine when you combine it, it might be because the saturation in the preview filter on the right side below the histogram was turned off, did you try to enable it? If we need to help you with your data, let me know and I will assist.
The manual is forthcoming with the 2.0 stable release as promised. Please do know that all these parameters are explained already on the many tooltips inside the application.
Mabula
