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.
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May 21, 2017 11:26
Astro Pixel Processor 1.040.1
- Fixed, when a reference is being set before star analysis, the user gets the warning that the frames need to be star analysed first. After the warning, all buttons were disabled. Also fixed, if a frame is chosen, after star analyis, that couldn't be analysed, a warning is thrown as well and buttons were disabled afterwards.
- Fixed, error in mosaic algorithm, not same camera and optics, dyn. distortion correction on, starting point for Center Of Distortion was wrong in regression calculation.
- Fixed, error in star analyis using star profile filter. Sometimes the filter caused the star analyser to find bogus stars with bad star lokations, upsetting registration robustness. Solved by 2 sanity checks in the regression results of the star profiles (number of iterations shouldn't be too high and FWHM can't be too small).
- Fixed, histogram calculation used to much memory due to inefficient calculation. Now consumes hardly any memory.
- Updated, new customized Linux DEB & RPM installers, Astro Pixel Processor can new be found in the Graphics and Science & Maths Category menus on your desktop.
- Fixed, after preview filter update, auto ddp didn't work correctly after zooming on a slider, now fixed. Also fixed several concurrency issues so a new preview filter task isn't kicked off more often than it should.
- Fixed, Bad Pixel Mapping is improved. For sensors with bad columns, strong amp glow and/or banding, the BPM calibration should work much better now. Please create a new BPM with this new version for better calibration results.
