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.
Using my CMOS cameras, I often go for lots of high gain, relatively short exposures - this results in really really large image sets (my last one was 1500+ 16Mpixel exposures - see https://flic.kr/p/24WfXDM ) which take a really long time to process - I don't mind the latter so much, since we don't have all that many clear nights there's plenty of time for processing - but I do occasionally want to use the PC for other things. Right now, if I interrupt the process, I often lose hours of processing. Being able to pause processing (or dare I think it, even "save" the current state and close APP, reloading state at a later time and continuing) would allow me to interrupt APP for other stuff whenever I want, while allowing it to continue processing when I don't need the PC anymore.
Getting a faster machine isn't an option, I'm already using a Threadripper 1950x (and yes, 16-core/32 thread processing on a fast SSD is lovely) and this kind of processing can still take many hours to finish. Once my process is optimized, I fully expect to be processing many thousands of images in a "lucky imaging" type scenario, which can increase total processing time to days, making the ability to spread the task across sessions even more useful...
Hi Bart @bdeclerc,
Wow 1500+ frames, amazing, my record with APP is about 500 hundred frames I believe.
Yes, the request for project saving/loading has been mentioned and I am actually thinking about how to implement this. It's an important feature for the mentioned reasons, I agree.
Internally APP stores all data about star analysis, registration, normalization. I will need to convert that information in project files to be able to make this work properly, so I think it should be perfectly possible.
(working on a Threadrippper 1950X myself with a M2 SSD, it's pretty nice 😉 )
The RFC is on my list ToDo !
Mabula
Any update on this RFC? I lost several hourswoth of processing because APP ran out of memory when I tried to use LNC.I had to increase the memory and restarted APP to find that I had to start afresh.Â
Not yet unfortunately, I do know that 1.085 is a version which will address settings etc. So by then we should also check if this is possible.
