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.
I know you've mentioned in other topics that this one might be for the future. As a Mac user, planetary processing is extremely limited on OS X. There are only a small set of applications that can stack and process planetary images, and they don't appear to be maintained anymore. I think this is a subset of the market that's currently underserved and it might make sense to incorporate this into future versions with the deconvolution implementation.
Hi Andrew @Lead_weight,
Thank you for your thoughts on this. To be able to process planetay/lunar/solar images, I will need to create a module that robustly finds registration points in those kind of images. Currently these registration points are the stars in our images. So I think, in due time, I will make this possible in APP 😉
Kind regards,
Mabula
At this time do can i use APP for planetary image processing 11-9-20
Stuart meyer md
No, planetary imaging is a whole seperate way of processing which APP is not made for. Yet.. it is something we are interested in developing but that will be a bit in the future.
@raghu Hi, no specific planetary imaging is not a priority as far as I know at the moment, sorry.
