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.
Since I occasionally fight wind or bad guiding I sometimes have stars that aren't quite round. I would like to see something that would be able to correct stars that aren't quite round. You already have FWHM measurements taking place, and there is already star detection and even star shrinking or removal I would think that you could put in place something that would measure the eccentricity fo the stars, then do either a shrink to bring the maximum measurement down to the same diameter as the minimum measurement, or even something to bring the stars into a new layer, expand then shrink them to make them round, and then recombine that with the background image. However it is done I think it would be a great addition to the tools tab.
That would be deconvolution I think, that's something we have on our list of features for sure.
Just an off the cuff remark, but couldnt it be possible to include a rounding function as part of the star reducer algorithm?
as said, you know the deformation already, and you are redrawing the stars already as part of the reduction.
just an idea 🤷♂️
