May 27 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta45 has been released !
Fully Multi-Threaded LNC, many improvements for the registration engine, platform upgrade, and further tuning of internal memory consumption and memory release back to OS.
Apr 14 2026: Google Pay, Apple Pay & WeChat Pay added as payment options
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,
I'm using a Atik 314L+ camera on a ED80 refractor, took some sbs the last couple nights even though the moon was full just to make sure everything was working well in SGP.
I took Lum subs at 1x1 binning and the RGB at 2x2 binning. I have darks, and flats to match all the filters. I did not collect bias frames, I will have to do that as i did not realize they were required (Deep sky stacker never warns about this and I did not know any better, now I do:) )
When I stack everything, and then combine in RGB, I see pattern of ghot RGB pixels. It "Almost" looks like they are just not aligned properly with the luminance frame, even though the luminance is the reference.
Is there something obvious i am overlooking here ?
Did you check if the darks are actually correcting well? You can load one of your subs and the masterdark (btw, this masterdark has the bias signal as well so that’s fine, for flats they are required yes) and select “l-calibrated” on top of the screen. You can then see if the darks are applied to the sub, by looking at the list and seeing “MD or Masterdark” added to the sub and the zoom in on the sub to check if hotspots are going away. Does that work properly?
