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. Â Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
Astro Pixel Processor 2.0.0-beta22 release notes
- IMPROVED Memory Usage
Further tweaks have been made for internal memory usage using Oracle GraalVM JDK 20 after extensive benchmarking. Memory should be lower and more stable giving more data throughput while latency is also managed well.
- IMPROVED MASTERFLAT CREATION SPEED 2-3x
MasterFlat creation and analysis from a batch of flats was rather a slow part of APP compared to the other processing steps from 2) Calibrate to 6) Integrate. So we have now optimized the loading of flats, analysis of flats for normalization and the final masterflat analysis. This leads to a significant boost of processing speed. The actual masterFlat creation is about 2-3x faster now depending on the image size and the number of flats. For a complete processing path from 2) Calibrate to 6) Integrate, APP will now only take about 70-85% of the time that was needed before. So you can argue that APP is about 1,2 - 1,35x or 20-35% faster roughly as a consequence when you process a dataset including flats. The actual performance gain does depend a lot on the amount of flats and the image dimensions and cpu threads in the system. This was tested with both OSC and well as monochrome data.
- FIXED 0) RAW/FITS settings behaviour, especially Bayer/X-Trans algorithm
Beta20 and beta21 had a regression bug on the Bayer/X-Trans algorithm setting. If you changed it, you were forced to restart at 3) Analyse Stars instead of 5) Normalize. For data shot with dual, triple, quad narrowband filters, this was very inconvenient because extraxt Ha and extract O3 integrations were not registered correctly out of the box. This is now fixed again. If you change the demosaic algorithm you only need to restart at 5) Normalize and thus you will preserve registration parameters. Only if you change the demosaic algorithm to or from Super Pixel, you will be forced to restart at 3) Analyse Stars because then it is vital to do so.
- FIXED, save Multi-Band Blending (MBB) % setting
The setting was not saved and thus restored when you restart APP. This is fixed.
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