June 24 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta46 has been released !
Improved internal memory configuration (lower ! memory usage), fixed beta45 startup issue, fixed Set Save Directory & 2-panel mosaics.
May 27 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta45 has been released !
Fully Multi-Threaded LNC, many improvements for the registration engine, platform upgrade, and further tuning of internal memory consumption and memory release back to OS.
Apr 14 2026: Google Pay, Apple Pay & WeChat Pay added as payment options
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 re-stacked the 72 panel stacks using LNC and MBB, but can not get rid of the "checkerboard"-effect as seen in attached example. I hope that version 1.061 with LNC 2.0 will take care of this, but when will that be?
Dear @kees_scherer,
I am about to release APP 1.060:
After it's release, I'll work on LNC 2.0 😉 for the 1.061 release. It's hard to tell when it will be released, since a new LNC version should take some time to implement. It's a very complicated algorithm already.
The checkerboard pattern only seems to manifest on some datasets and I think it has to do with a combination of
- ligh pollution gradients (which are still there in even 3nm H-alpha exposures)
- the amount of overlaps between the frames
- the current implementation of LNC isn't adaptive on the widht/height of the frame overlap areas which it probably should be
Kind regards,
Mabula
I was hoping that mono data (multiple filters) could be processed together at same time with the 1.060 release.
Is this included in this version?
Too much work to calibrate and align 4-7 filters separately for me.
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Max
Hi Max @titansmoonsyahoo-com ,
Yes, APP 1.060 will have multi-channel and mutli-session support for fully automatic integrations of all channels and/or sessions with matching calibration masters. It will be released within a couple of days now...
Mabula
Thanks
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Max
Hi Max @titansmoonsyahoo-com,
APP 1.061 has been released with the requested multi-channel and mutli-session support 😉
Mabula
Now that APP 1.068 is released and LNC 2.0 would be implemented in 1.061 but still is not? Or did i miss something?
Nope, it is indeed delayed, but kind of on top of the list at the moment. ETA only Mabula knows.
I see in the Astro Imaging Channel Presentation that LNC 2.0 development has a priority status. Any news to report?
Let's give a status summary for this thread:
May 12, 2018: "After it's release, I'll work on LNC 2.0 
for the 1.061 release". Meanwhile we have 1.061, 1.062, 10.63, 1.064, 1.065, 1.066, 1.067, 1.068, 1.069 and 1.070 and no LNC 2.0 was implemented. Also no statement on the status other than the presentation for the Astro Imaging channel stating LNC 2.0 has a priority status.
