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.
I created 3 master 2 frame mosaics separately: RGB, HA, and OIII. I then reloaded them in as lights to align them. They did align correctly, except for the middle of the field where the RGB stars are offset from the HA/OIII stars. It's kind of a trippy look, but not something I want in my final image! So, what did I do wrong and is there any trick to align them correctly? thanks.
Mike
You discovered a wormhole!
In all seriousness though, it seems something still went wrong in the distortion correction, what settings did you use and could you show me the masters stacks before you make this integration?
@vincent-mod
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Thanks for the reply. I did this a few weeks back so I'm not sure of the settings now so I'll have to redo it and get back to you.
Mike
