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.
Please understand that I love APP. I just realized that I have an array of settings that I use, some suggested by Mabula and other users, but I really have very little understanding of what they do and why I am using them. I get decent results, but if I had a manual I might realize that some of the integration setting I use are unnecessary of less that optimal.
Will there ever be a proper user manual? If not, fine, but I for one would like a real authoritative reference.
Thanks,
Chris
I am not sure if this will allow you to see my articles and my over 3 year old APP tutorial that I really need to update and get more in depth on, but I've done some APP instructions over at Telescope Live. I'm a huge fan of it and have done hundreds of images using it. https://telescope.live/user/19065 I also have some stuff in the articles section of their forum https://community.telescope.live/articles/software-tutorialsreviews/
