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.
What and when s the best way to get rid of satellite trails? I am sure I am getting occasional failure dialog boxes when I am stacking images because of these trails. I They usually appear as vertical lines sos maybe they are something else. In either case I want to know how best to eliminate them from the images. At the present time I have set the setting for hot and cold columns in Cosmetic Correction at 6.0.
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I am using a MAC desktop computer and am using the latest beta version of 1.083
@tsnapp The best way is to shoot lots of frames. That way APP can detect the trail much more reliably and remove it from the integration.
However, you can play with the rejection parameters yourself. Given the huge amount of possibilities concerning cameras, telescopes and imaging conditions it is impossible to give a standard recipe. Just try to be as conservative as possible because with a high rejection of satellite trails you run a big risk of rejecting real and valuable signal from stars and nebulae as well.Â
I failed to say that that my images come from telescope live already calibrated since I am not shooting my own frames I must remove the parameters from the images they have shot.
@tsnapp Signa clipping, which is used to remove satellite trails, is performed during the last stage of the integration process and not during calibration of the frames so you should be good.Â
