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.
After having problems getting other programs to recognize my master flats, I realized that, instead of the standard key word "FILTER" (which is used in the lights), the MF files contains "FILT-1" and then "FILTNUM." I presume if there were two filters used for the flat, there'd be FILTNUM = 2 and a FILT-2 etc.
I think I understand the reasoning, but that seems to me an edge use case. Meanwhile, only APP recognizes what FILT-1 means, and no other program I tried seems to. Could we name the first filter FILTER like everyone else does, and maybe use FLT-2 etc for the exceedingly rare case that someone uses multiple filters for one flat, if that's needed at all?
I just ran into this and it is a significant problem for me. i just processed two weeks worth of flats at multiple rotator angles, only to find I cannot use them b/c the filter keyword is wrong. I used multi-session to stack them by date and rotator angle, and kept the same dark files. I did this b/c Pixinsight is way too slow to deal with for stacking all these files and the file sizes are insane, not to mention its slow.Â
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However now I am stuck since apparently all of my master flats I just generated are no good.Â
@mikecmp I hear you. For now: Download ASTAP (free) and that lets you easily batch change fits header keywords. It's a workaround, though takes extra steps (and yet another program).
APP allows you to do that too (In Tools), but that does create a new file each time.
