UPDATE FROM MABULA
I have had a very rough 2 months unfortunately health wise. I was struck 3x in a row with bacterial infections. The second infection occurred after a routine hospital checkup and I became very sick. I had to rest and take a lot of antibiotics. Once I was recovering and restarting work 1 month ago, I again became sick. The infection was not yet gone, so even more antibiotics and rest was needed. Needless to say, it took a lot of my energy and I needed a lot of rest.
Finally, the infection is really gone and my energy is coming back step-by-step now and I have started work again. I am terribly sorry to have kept you waiting for support. I will address all outstanding questions and e-mails step-by step and will be on the forum daily from today.
APP 2.0.0-beta47 will come soon as well, a lot of work was already completed before I became very ill, so the release is also nearly ready for you. Beta47 will be much faster actually. Many workflows will be more than 2x faster, mosaics can even be 10x faster than before because registration really received a major boost... all compared to beta46. Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
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.
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
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.
