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.
Hello,
I use a OSC camera with a multi-narrowband filter for my nebulosity. I then use no filter (or a very weak filter) for my stars. I start by loading all of my data as two sessions (narrowband and broadband). I usually extract HA, OIII and mono (For luminance) from my narrowband data using their respective algorithms in the “load” section, so that’s three passes through APP, and then I stack my “stars” subs separately with the Airy Disc algorithm.
What I’d love are some more advanced options in the integration tab, when you’re deciding which filters/sessions to integrate. Instead of just “all”, “separate” and “all and separate” options, it would be awesome if I could just check-box the sessions/filters that I want to integrate in that particular pass. I think it would be a much simpler way to do this, vs the current “uncheck all of the frames you don’t want to integrate” method. This gets especially cumbersome when you have 2, 3, 4 filters on one image, all with their different calibration frames, and trying to make sure you have the same reference frame for each integration.
Thoughts?
Jeff
Hi Jeff @jeffreyhorne,
Thank you very much for your thoughts on this.
I think your proposal is very good and usefull indeed 🙂 We can make APP smarter to make this possible. I have added this to our ToDo list.
It will be some time before we can implement it, we first need to create 2.0 stable and some other important new features will come in subsequent releases.
Mabula
Thanks, Mabula! And thanks for making such great software!
