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.
So this is Alintak in Orion's Belt. Quite pronounced colour halo's around the bigger stars. Any idea what is causing this? I did have a LP filter in the imaging train. Is there some integration setting in APP to eliminate this? Thanks for any help.
Alnitak is a very bright and slightly blueish star. It looks to me as if the blue subs (or the blue channel in case of an OSC) are overexposed. If you want a more detailed answer then we would need to know exactly what telescope, camera and filters you used and which exposure time.
Clear skies, Wouter
Thanks. Equipment used was H-A modified Nikon D5500. Scope AT65 edq. 300 second light subs. There was an IDAS-D1 LP filter on the D5500.
I personally don’t have any experience with your equipment but I am pretty sure that 300 sec is much too long for such a bright star. As far as I know it is not possible to correct for that while processing the images. Not with APP nor any other software. But perhaps someone else on this forum knows a way to do it.
Clear skies, Wouter
Wouter is correct, it's simply in the data as it's over-exposed. That data you can't really fix, maybe a little bit by playing around with gradients tools, but that still won't be as nice as trying to get the data itself better. An HDR tool would then be really useful, unfortunately that's not in APP yet, but it is on the to-do list.
