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.
Hi, When doing multi-session processing I can see three methods:
- Use Lights, Flats, Darks etc using multi-session in 1) Load
- Use the final integrated images as Lights and add additional Lights using multi-session
- Use calibrated frames
There appears to be limitations with #1 - I can't add more than 5 sessions, plus it gets very very long winded without the ability to load a previous session's list of files.
I recently tried #2 but I spend a long time then trying to normalise backgrounds and blending of edges and can't do in a satisfactory way
I've not tried #3 but ran into a bug where saving more than 10 calibrated frames ended up overwriting files due to filename problems (edit: Although using 1.071 doesn't seem to have this problem - so will assume for now that is fixed/an anomaly). #3 sounds most appealing - am I correct in thinking that I can then forget about my previous flats/dark flats/darks, etc and can just load these as Lights for future combination? That would make #1 much more appealing again - if the 5 session limit can be lifted?
Kev
