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.
Topic starter
August 18, 2025 10:47
Request for weights on sky background / dispersion. When doing widefield this is really important and when integrating dark nebula from suburbs it is also useful to have. here is an up to date example here where integration with weights on skky background would yield a better result for this dark nebula. Â
Also ongoing request for batch background subtraction with consistent region between frames.
August 18, 2025 15:12
I have a question. First I'm quite comfortable with the other metrics but what is the significance of dispersion in astrophotography? What are it's visible effects?
