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 am just 6 months into this hobby of Astrophotography.
In the core of M101 something is not right when I zoom in. I wonder if this is in the captures or in the post-processing? Did I simply blow out the core in capture? or is there anything else I could do to improve the APP stack to avoid the problem I see?Â
Asi533mcp - Takahashi FSQ106n - about 7 hours integration total. 300 seconds, 360 seconds, 420 seconds and 600 seconds subframes.
Thanks for your advice.
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I attached JPG, and a tiff of the stack.
@andynowlen Hi Andy. The core looks saturated with lots of details around it. What is wrong according to you?
I attached a screenshot of the core area. Maybe I am overdoing my concern about the 'ring of colors' around the core. Â
This is 200% zoom in AAP
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@andynowlen Yes it is a bit pink. Do you still have the unprocessed stack?
Yes. I think so. Do you mean 1 fits file?
I continue to process this image in different versions. What do you think the artifacts in this screen clip represent? It is a 133% view in APP.
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@andynowlen You asked in your original post if this could be due to post-processing. So my question is if you see this in the integration result before post-processing.Â
