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.
I seem to have a total blackout....no idea what to do now. I processed yesterday raw files and ended up with L,R,G and B of course. Saved them and wanted to continue to get a final LRGB image. OK so far so good - loaded those four stacks and switched to "tools" and selected LRGB1. Now loading started and I was asked during loading what color I want to asign to Ch1, then Ch2, then Ch3 - because the stacked files are RGB. Now what to do, please? I have not idea, it is the first time that I want to contine working a day later..
Please help me and let me know what I need to do now..!
Thanks
Georg
Hi Georg,
I am assuming you have used a monochrome camera with LRGB filters and ended up with four monochrome images which you then combined in APP. I believe APP should have created an LRGB .fits image that it will save in the working folder and you should be able to open that back up in APP and finish processing in APP or save as .tiff file to finish processing in Photoshop, GIMP, etc.
Tom
Tom - thanks for your reply. I think I found out what I did wrong - I ended up with RGB stacks for L,R,G,B from mono images - that was my problem. But I forgot to uncheck the "force Bayer pattern" in the loading section - I processed an OSC image before. That resulted in the mono images to be stored as RRGB32bit and therefore when trying to make an LRGB image out of those four "mono" RGB stacks, it did not work.Â
I presume, the problem is resolved now - I do the stack again and have unchecked the forced-Bayer pattern icon...
Georg
Georg, looks like you have got it figured out. Good luck, Tom
