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I uninstalled DSS and downloaded the new version that came out 5 hours ago, now it's working! I've been blessed by the devs, or more realistically I touched some option I shouldn't have in the previous version. Anyway, thanks everyone for your help! Can't wait to see the final image!

When I register them this is what I see It picks nothing up. The only way to get some stars is to pick them manually, otherwise I just get NC in everything. For the trailing, I sampled random images and found none. I'm not sure if I'm doing something extremely wrong or the images I took are just bad (First time trying astrophotography so I wouldn't be surprised).

Hi Michael, thanks for your reply. The problem is that even if it initially detects the stars, when I start aligning it fails and doesn't even create a .tiff file. I think the other lights are around the same quality, I'll attach some random ones to give an idea. DSC00272.ARW DSC00337.ARW DSC00437.ARW DSC00549.ARW

Hello everyone! Yesterday I went on my first night out and took around 400 lights plus the calibration frames. My equipment is pretty cheap as I'm just starting out. I used a Sony a6000 with a 35mm f1.8. I took 4s exposures at ISO3200, aiming at Deneb, as it was the only interesting area that wasn't covered by clouds. After getting home and starting DeepSkyStacker, I added all the frames and tried aligning. The problem is that for each image it finds 0 stars, so it stacks nothing. I guess that the problem relies with the light frames, but I'm not sure what I did wrong. Are there not enough bright stars to align? Is the picture too noisy? Are the stars just out of focus? I've attached one of the lights as reference. Thanks in advance. DSC00210.ARW