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.
This may have already been posted and I missed, it but I'll post this in case. Charles Bracken - the author of astronomy books including Deep Sky Imaging Primer - is "big fan of APP" and has posted a Quick Start Guide to APP. You can get it here: https://digitalstars.wordpress.com/2020/09/19/an-astropixelprocessor-quick-start-guide/
edit from Vincent; this is a 3rd party workflow, but from an experienced source. 😉
Nice! Thanks for sharing.
This is a great quick-start guide and should be prominently posted for anyone just starting with APP! Wish I'd had this when I was first started working with APP.
Cool! I'll make it a sticky in the workflow section of the forum.
Just purchased it after trialing it for some time , getting ok results but think its more my light pollution and gradients thats making it difficult ?
The quick start guide certainly helped along with a couple of videos i watched.
Picked this over Pixinsight for relative simplicity for a relative newby like me.
Cliff
Good to hear, thanks for your purchase @cliff99, very much appreciated! You can always open a topic if there is something you'd like help with.
Just wanted to say thanks for posting the link. It has been a help to both inform and confirm how I’m doing things. It’s amazing what you learn doing astro processing.
