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.
Hello, is there a way in APP to convert a BIN1 FITS to BIN2 near the hardware BIN2 CCD? Have already tried using Scale under Integration to 0.5. But don't see any change.
Dear Enrico,
Why would you want to throw away valuable information by reducing it to bin2 before anything ?
Integrating with scale 0.5 should work and give you an integration with half resolution, doesn't it?
Mabula
@mabula-admin My camera has too small a pixel size for my focal length (ASI6200mm with Edge 1100 HD). This brings me into oversampling with bloating stars. I have already tried Scale 0.5 but did not see any improvement as it would be with BIN2.
Okay, I have bin2 code ready, but it is not yet implemented in APP. Perhaps you can send me a couple of lights and I will test it and implement it going forward?
Can you upload some lights here:
https://upload.astropixelprocessor.com/
username and password : upload
Make a folder with your name and let me know once uploaded 😉
Mabula
I'm in the same boat... I shot 5 hours of data I need to convert from BIN1 to BIN2 (because I forgot to set adjust my Oiii data to Bin 2) My flats are in BIN 2. So I'd like to convert each raw image and then I can feed it into APP with my other files and it will compile. When I try to include the data it doubles or upsizes all me other Oiii sessions.
Please let me know.
