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.
Hi all,Â
I'm new to APP, and I shoot with a DSLR (Pentax K-1) and SBIG STF-8300CÂ Both one shot color cameras.
I'm looking for some tutorials on how to process the shots from these. I know that I have to convert my DSLR RAWS to FITS and I've got that handled. What happens after that is where I'm confused. the once video tutorial about DSLR is for an older version 1.054 and I've got the latest which appears to have been significantly revamped with the ability to create the master calibration frames.Â
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A written tutorial is also good if there's any of those for OSC processing.
Hi Craig, at the moment there is no written manual yet. Mabula is working on one which I expect in a few months.
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ps. not sure but the raw frames are not recognized by APP?
@vincent-mod
Thanks for the info. I was hoping for a video tutorial or web page that shows the newer version. But I'll muddle through and keep working at it.
And, no, as of now APP does not handle Pentax .PEF files (native RAW) or .DNG (another RAW option that I use). Both are coming in a future version from what I've read. But I hope .DNG comes quickly.
Can't tell for sure if DNG is supported in the next version, but it will be a rather big update so fingers crossed. The video's are indeed outdated by now, but should get you going nonetheless. If not, let me know here and I'll try to help you.
