cleairx Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Hello folks, yesterday, I tried my first ever deepsky object photoshoot, and I came back to home tryna use deepskystacker. I have successfully followed the steps of the deep-sky-stacker guide by astrobackyard https://astrobackyard.com/deep-sky-stacker-settings/ However, after a long time for my photographs to stack, I faced a problem. As I attached in the attachment, the screen is just grey and it seems as if there is no picture that is stacked as a result. Could you please help me ? Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rallemikken Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 I think DSS saves the stacked image in the "Lights"-folder, with the name "Autosave.fits" or similar. Look for it there. Btw, I don't do any image processing or converting in DSS itself. I take the fits-files into Siril, does a couple of tweaks, and export them as tiff's, which I finish in Gimp. If you dont have Siril installed, DSS can be configured to save the finshed image as a tiff, which you can work on in Gimp or Photoshop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleairx Posted August 12, 2022 Author Share Posted August 12, 2022 2 hours ago, Rallemikken said: I think DSS saves the stacked image in the "Lights"-folder, with the name "Autosave.fits" or similar. Look for it there. Btw, I don't do any image processing or converting in DSS itself. I take the fits-files into Siril, does a couple of tweaks, and export them as tiff's, which I finish in Gimp. If you dont have Siril installed, DSS can be configured to save the finshed image as a tiff, which you can work on in Gimp or Photoshop. I do not think thats the case though, because I do not see the autosave file in my light frame folders and also as you see in my attachment, I do not see a preview picture but instead just see a plane grey rectangle. I may be wrong, but I listened to your advice and searched the autosave file everywhere but they are not present anywhere unfortunately. Still thank you very much for the comment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroNebulee Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Can you show the list of your light and calibration frames screen please, maybe they weren't registered, or the boxes checked. Just a couple ideas. If not maybe reinstall dss incase something went a wry Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy-kat Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 To auto save the stack as a fits file this is an option to pick on the Output tab in the stacking options. Please post an example of one of the light frames as a jpg to your post so we can see what the stars are like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lazy Astronomer Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 I don't think it's actually stacked anything. When I last used DSS (which was a while ago, admittedly), the blue-white bar along the top would display some text saying something like "n of n frames stacked". I don't see that in your pictures. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul2019 Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 I’m far from experienced but I’m also thinking that there’s no stack. If you click on this bit where I’ve squiggled it will bring you back to the images you added. Then click the “check all” Then “stack checked pictures” Ensure all settings are default and check the “register already registered images” box. Click ok or whatever it says in the bottom right corner. Then your images will be registered and stacked which will bring you back to this screen. Hopefully with an image. If that doesn’t work it could be a focus problem, registration issue etc and DSS might just not be throwing an error. If that’s the case try to reinstall, then move all images to another folder and delete the registration information and try again as above. if you upload your data then I will have a go for you if you like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael8554 Posted August 13, 2022 Share Posted August 13, 2022 The first screenshot shows the normal "stacking completed" display of the RGB adjustment sliders. But the second screenshot shows "No picture to save" Puzzling. Start over and show a screenshot of the result after only clicking on "Register checked pictures" (you did tick all the images to be stacked ?) Needs to show the list of subs and their statistics. Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleairx Posted August 16, 2022 Author Share Posted August 16, 2022 Thank you all, I tried to click the register checked pictures and then clicked clicked stack checked pictures then it worked! I think that the problem was that I didnt register checked pictures but just straight away went into stack checked pictures.. Thank you for commenting on my posts and tried to help me out, sorry I took so long to answer back 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael8554 Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 Strange. If you click "Stack checked pictures", then it will Register first, then it will Stack without an additional click. Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lazy Astronomer Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 Glad you got it sorted, now let's see the result!! 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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