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.
This is an awesome program, but there is a feature I can't find any info on if its avail....
Is batch processing avail like in Deep Sky Stacker?
Say, I have a 4 panel Ha mosaic of NGC2023.
Each panel has 10 subs each.
I will use the same MasterDark, MasterFlat and BPM for each panel.
I want to be able to load all 40 subs into APP and set up 4 batches, Panel1, Panel2, Panel3 and Panel4.
One click, and APP processes Panel1_Integration, Panel2_Integration, Panel3_integration....
Then I can mosaic the integrated panels.
Currently I have to integrate Panel 1, walk away, come back, select Panel2 subs, click, walk away, repeat...
Why? If I load all subs and try to integrate into a mosaic, it takes a whole lot longer than doing the 4 panel integration independently and then mosaicing off the integrated panels.
