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,
I'm new to APP and I'm looking for a workflow processing L,R,G,B, Ha, OIII, SII calibrated images from iTelescope (Images already calibratedi
Thank you
Oliver
@opeitrequin Hi Oliver,
In tab 1, set the working directory and then add the lights. Make sure to assign them to the correct filters. Then go to tab 6 and click the integrate button. That will get you 7 integration results: one for L,R,G,B, Ha, OIII and SII each. Depending on the light pollution in the images, you can remove that with the remove light pollution tool. Otherwise you can combine them in the combine RGB tool.
HTH, Wouter
Hi Wouter,
Thank you very much.
If I have read what is said in the forum correctly, each integration must be processed by the light pollution tool. Is this correct?
Is it the same process for the Calibrate star colors and star reducer tools, or are these applied to the assembled image in the RGB tool combine ?
Oliver
@opeitrequin Hi Oliver,
Whether or not you need to process a file with reduce light pollution depends on whether there is any light pollution in the image. Just process the data and have a look. Then you can decide.
The calibrate star colors tool is intended to be used to get more realistic colors in your image. Note that this tool only works on RGB images, not on mono images. And it only works well on full bandwidth RGB images and not on Hubble palette or HOO images.
The star reducer tool is used to make stars in your image smaller so the nebulae and background get visible better.
HTH, Wouter
OK, thank's
